In 2024 the US environment agency banned most uses of a solvent that has been widely used for a century. Indira Subramanian explains why, and why the ban might not be enough to halt rising cases of ...

The preliminary data presented in this manuscript seem valuable. The data are currently incomplete and there are numerous technical concerns, some of which may arise from insufficient description of ...

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain.

More information: Bart de Laat et al, Intense exercise increases dopamine transporter and neuromelanin concentrations in the ...

Marc Cohn has taken took Instagram to reveal his hope amid his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

In the case of Parkinson's, Lewy bodies are primarily found in the substantia nigra, a region of the brain that is crucial for movement control, which leads to characteristic motor symptoms such ...

I arrived at my appointment with the neurologist assuming I would receive confirmation of my primary doc’s best-guess diagnosis of an “essential tremor” — relatively benign. We had a brief ...

Loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and accumulation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates are the major hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Nicole LaBolle initially dismissed her shaking as something fairly common before facing a Parkinson's diagnosis at 28 ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative ... leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor ...

Parkinson's disease (PD ... leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor symptoms in patients, a common clinical ...