April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, a time to shed light on the disease and its potential causes — including paraquat ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) based strategy has significantly sped up the identification of potential new drugs to treat Parkinson's disease. The work, published in the journal Nature Chemical ...

Thanks in large part to Michael J. Fox and other advocates, awareness and understanding of Parkinson's disease have grown ...

We were amazed at what we were seeing on a sweltering summer's day, when a group of people with Parkinson's Disease began rock-climbing on the Carderock Cliffs of Maryland. Yes, rock-climbing! It's ...

In the late 1960s, scientists discovered a miracle drug for Parkinson’s disease — a simple, inexpensive dopamine-replacement pill called levodopa. It transformed the lives of millions of people.

As the global population ages, the prevalence of Parkinson’s continues to rise, with an estimated 25 million people expected to be living with the neurological disease by 2050. The incurable ...

This year, Phoenix is the site of the 7th World Parkinson Congress. This four-day event, from May 25-27, will be attended by delegates from around the world who are involved with all aspects of ...

Researchers have finally seen and measured the tiny alpha-synuclein oligomers that may ignite Parkinson’s disease. With the ultra-sensitive ASA-PD imaging method, they captured these clusters in brain ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that involves reduced dopamine levels. Parkinsonism is a broad term describing conditions that involve movement symptoms such as ...