Can exercise help slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease in patients?That’s the question a team of faculty and student researchers at Sacramento State are trying to answer with a new study.Dr. Gwénaëlle Begue and Dr. Matt J.N. Brown, both professors at the university, are leading the research. More than 20 people from the Sacramento region … Read more
Share on PinterestWhat role do micronutrients play in treating neurological diseases? Image credit: nicolas_/Getty Images. Micronutrients refer to all the vitamins and minerals a body needs to stay healthy and function correctly. More than 2 billion people globally are micronutrient deficient. Not getting enough micronutrients can place a person at risk for health issues. Researchers … Read more
Share on PinterestA new biomarker may help detect Parkinson’s and related conditions before symptom onset. Image credit: Santi Nuñez/Stocksy. More than 10 million people globally have Parkinson’s disease. Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease can be difficult as there is currently no specific test. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified a new biomarker that can be … Read more
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan is sedate, soft spoken, sits in a sparsely furnished office in leafy Koramangala in Bengaluru, and is passionate about his work and his contribution to brain research. Gopalakrishnan has made a commitment to donate more than Rs 1,500 crore over the next 10 years towards fighting neuro degenerative diseases like Alzhemeirs … Read more
Markers that indicate the presence of Parkinson’s disease in patients on average seven years before clinical presentation have been identified by a UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital research team. This is the first time anyone has shown these findings several years before diagnosis, and these results were made possible by the largest study to date … Read more
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working with technology company Faculty AI, have shown that machine learning can accurately predict subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using images of patient-derived stem cells. Their work, published today in Nature Machine Intelligence, has shown that computer models can accurately classify four subtypes … Read more