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Released: 23-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health, Part of Select Parkinson’s Foundation Study Group, Implementing Changes to Better Care for Patients
Hackensack Meridian Health

Partnership with Parkinson's Foundation to write protocols for patients hospitalized with Parkinson's Disease to receive the best care.

Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Long COVID can happen to anyone. Keep up with the latest research on Long COVID on Newswise
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Stay informed! These are the latest research articles on "Long COVID" from the Coronavirus News Source on Newswise.

Newswise: Fixing rogue brain cells may hold key to preventing neurodegeneration
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:20 AM EST
Fixing rogue brain cells may hold key to preventing neurodegeneration
Case Western Reserve University

A team led by scientists at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has identified a new therapeutic approach for combating neurodegenerative diseases.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Life doesn't stop at age 65. Get the latest on seniors and healthy aging in the Seniors channel
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Below are some of the latest research and features on this growing population of older adults in the Seniors channel on Newswise.

Newswise: Gold nanoparticles reverse brain deficits in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
Released: 13-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Gold nanoparticles reverse brain deficits in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Results from phase two clinical trials at UT Southwestern Medical Center showed that a suspension of gold nanocrystals taken daily by patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD) significantly reversed deficits of metabolites linked to energy activity in the brain and resulted in functional improvements.

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Released: 1-Feb-2024 5:00 PM EST
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT: Nurses -- The Most Trusted Profession in an Age of Mistrust
Newswise

For 21 years, nurses have consistently been the most trusted profession, according to the yearly Gallup poll. (The new poll will be issued by the end of January). Dr Rushton, who specializes in burnout, will speak on trust, moral injury, and how nurses cope in this day and age.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
UW-Madison researchers first to 3D-print functional human brain tissue
University of Wisconsin–Madison

A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists has developed the first 3D-printed brain tissue that can grow and function like typical brain tissue.

   
Newswise: Innovative Portable Sensors for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection Unveiled
Released: 1-Feb-2024 8:05 AM EST
Innovative Portable Sensors for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection Unveiled
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hydrogen peroxide is crucial in cell metabolism, playing key roles in cell proliferation, differentiation, and migration. However, elevated levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) are linked to several diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

   
Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
UGA stroke treatment headed to clinical trial
University of Georgia

A new therapeutic for stroke based on University of Georgia research will soon enter clinical trials.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Our winter of discontent: Get the latest news on the flu in the Influenza channel
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The latest research and expertise on the flue can be found in the Influenza channel on Newswise.

Newswise: University Hospitals Selected as Study Site for the Black and African American Connections to Parkinson’s Disease (BLAAC PD) Study
Released: 30-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
University Hospitals Selected as Study Site for the Black and African American Connections to Parkinson’s Disease (BLAAC PD) Study
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

University Hospitals has been selected by the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program as one of four new study sites for the Black and African American Connections to Parkinson’s Disease (BLAAC PD) study.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 6:05 AM EST
New drug reveals a key mechanism to overcome resistance to protein degraders
Fundació Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB BARCELONA)

Protein degraders offer a novel approach to targeting undruggable diseases by hijacking the cell's degradation machinery.

Released: 25-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Researchers establish brain pathway linking motivation, addiction and disease
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

New findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience have shed light on a mysterious pathway between the reward center of the brain that is key to how we form habits, known as the basal ganglia, and another anatomically distinct region where nearly three-quarters of the brain’s neurons reside and assist in motor learning, known as the cerebellum.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
A neurological disease paradigm shift
McGill University

Researchers propose a new model for classifying Parkinson’s.

Released: 19-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Don't wait for an emergency to get the latest emergency medicine news
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Find the latest research and features on emergency medicine in the Emergency Medicine channel on Newswise.

       
Released: 15-Jan-2024 5:05 AM EST
‘’Feel good’’ hormone could explain why exercise helps boost your brain
University of Portsmouth

A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive performance improves in response to exercise, has found that dopamine plays a key role.

Newswise: Cellular clean energy: Can mitochondria make more energy without collateral damage?
Released: 12-Jan-2024 10:05 PM EST
Cellular clean energy: Can mitochondria make more energy without collateral damage?
Gladstone Institutes

Is it possible to amp up the energy production of mitochondria, the “power centers” of cells, without also boosting potentially harmful byproducts? If so, such a method could be used to treat a host of neurodegenerative diseases in which impaired mitochondria are believed to play a central role.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Quando os transtornos do sono prenunciam algo mais sério
Mayo Clinic

Certa manhã, bem cedo, enquanto examinava uma paciente adormecida no Centro de Medicina do Sono, o Dr. Erik St. Louis percebeu algo peculiar. A paciente, uma mulher na faixa dos 60 anos, começou a correr debaixo dos lençóis.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Cuando los trastornos del sueño presagian algo más grave
Mayo Clinic

Una mañana temprano, mientras revisaba a una paciente dormida en el Centro de Medicina del Sueño, el Dr. Erik St. Louis observó algo particular. La paciente, una mujer de unos 60 años, había empezado a correr debajo de las sábanas. A media que sus párpados se agitaban, las piernas se pusieron en marcha, lentamente al principio, pero luego aceleraron rápidamente el paso, lo que la impulsó a lo largo de un camino que solo ella podía ver. Después de correr durante aproximadamente 30 segundos, se detuvo bruscamente y abrió los ojos. No era el comportamiento que el Dr. St. Louis esperaba de una persona con apnea del sueño.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
عندما تُنذر اضطرابات النوم بشيء أكثر خطورة
Mayo Clinic

مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا— يومًا ما في الصباح الباكر، أثناء فحص حالة نائمة في مركز طب النوم، لاحظ الدكتور إريك سانت لويس أمرًا غريبًا. حيث بدأت الحالة، وهي مريضة في أوائل الستينات من عمرها، تركض تحت غطاء سريرها. حيث بدأت ساقاها تنطلقان ببطء في البداية ثم أخذت تزيد سرعتها لتندفع في طريق لا يراه أحد غيرها، وكان جفناها يرتعشان في نفس الوقت. وبعد الركض لمدة حوالي 30 ثانية، توقفت فجأة وفتحت عينيها. ولم يتوقع الدكتور سانت لويس أن يصدر مثل هذا التصرف من مريض انقطاع النفس النومي.

9-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Scientists behind Novel Discoveries and Individuals Leading the Understanding of Emerging Areas of Concern for Public Health Are Being Honored with 2024 SOT Awards
Society of Toxicology

Among the accomplishments of this year’s awardees are discoveries related to the role of altered pharmacokinetics in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease neurodegeneration, the risk of COVID-19 to smokers and vapers, and the role of the microbiome in pregnancy and early developmental programming.

   
Released: 5-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Can we fight back against Parkinson’s disease? These research volunteers hope so
Boston University

About three years before he retired, David Campbell noticed something weird happening as he typed.

Released: 5-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease
Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences have used a soft, wearable robot to help a person living with Parkinson’s walk without freezing.

Released: 5-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Speech Accessibility Project begins recruiting people with ALS
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Speech Accessibility Project has expanded its recruitment and is inviting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to participate.

       
Released: 4-Jan-2024 2:00 PM EST
Starting a family with the help of science: The latest research in Fertility
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Find the latest research and features on fertility in the Fertility News Source on Newswise.

       
Newswise: Structures of Parkinson’s disease-linked proteins offer a framework for understanding how they work together
Released: 21-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Structures of Parkinson’s disease-linked proteins offer a framework for understanding how they work together
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital used cryo-electron microscopy to characterize the interaction of two proteins implicated in Parkinson’s disease.

Newswise: Delivering the bad news right: report says Parkinson’s disease diagnoses must include a message of hope
Released: 21-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Delivering the bad news right: report says Parkinson’s disease diagnoses must include a message of hope
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A new report by a UCLA neurologist and collaborators draws upon patient voices and lived experiences to identify the common pitfalls of Parkinson’s diagnoses and create a guidebook for how medical providers – from seasoned specialists to rural community physicians – can avoid them.

Released: 20-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Working with Big Data requires a lot of power! The latest research and features on Supercomputing
Newswise

With the rise in machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that more and more scientists and researchers are turning to supercomputers. Supercomputers are commonly used for making predictions with advanced modeling and simulations. This can be applied to climate research, weather forecasting, genomic sequencing, space exploration, aviation engineering and more.

       
Released: 19-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
Parkinson's Disease: When the Cellular Waste Collector Doesn’t Show Up
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

NEMO, a protein that is primarily associated with signaling processes in the immune system, prevents the deposition of protein aggregates that occur in Parkinson’s disease. For this purpose, it binds to certain protein chains that serve as markers for cellular waste removal, thus promoting the degradation of the harmful aggregates.

Newswise: New Findings About Key Pathological Protein in Parkinson’s Disease Open Paths to Novel Therapies
Released: 18-Dec-2023 11:00 AM EST
New Findings About Key Pathological Protein in Parkinson’s Disease Open Paths to Novel Therapies
Johns Hopkins Medicine

A so-called pathological protein long associated with Parkinson’s disease has been found in a new study to trigger cells to increase protein synthesis, an event that eventually kills the subset of brain cells that die off in this neurodegenerative condition.

Released: 9-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Structure of a central component of the human immune system revealed
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich)

An international team of researchers from LMU and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research has visualized the structure of the so-called ASC speck.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 2:15 PM EST
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It's the moooost wonderful time...of the year! Are you looking for new story ideas that are focused on the winter holiday season? Perhaps you're working on a story on on managing stress and anxiety? Perhaps you're working on a story on seasonal affective disorder? Or perhaps your editor asked you to write a story on tracking Santa? Look no further. Check out the Winter Holidays channel.

       
Released: 6-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
New Research in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Gladiator Therapeutics

Researchers at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine (UCF COM) in Orlando, Florida completed research that is very promising in the treatment of Parkinson's disease

Newswise: Coffee Grounds May Hold Key to Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases
20-Nov-2023 3:40 PM EST
Coffee Grounds May Hold Key to Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases
University of Texas at El Paso

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso found that caffeic-acid based Carbon Quantum Dots (CACQDs), which can be derived from spent coffee grounds, have the potential to protect brain cells from the damage caused by several neurodegenerative diseases.

Newswise: UTHealth Houston researcher receives NIH subcontract to study effects of integrated palliative care on Parkinson’s, related dementia
Released: 15-Nov-2023 3:05 PM EST
UTHealth Houston researcher receives NIH subcontract to study effects of integrated palliative care on Parkinson’s, related dementia
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

As part of a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Adriana Pérez, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, received a $1.9 million subcontract to determine the scope and drivers of low-value and unequal care for patients with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease dementia.

Released: 15-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
Researchers Halt Progression in Parkinson's Disease Mouse Model
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Researchers performed complementary experiments showing that inhibiting a specific enzyme in a mouse model protects the dopamine-producing neurons that are normally lost as Parkinson's disease progresses, effectively halting the progression of the disease. The findings open the door to the development of novel therapeutics targeting the enzyme that may slow or prevent the progression of Parkinson's disease in people—a major unmet need.

Released: 25-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Tai Chi may curb Parkinson’s disease symptoms and complications for several years
BMJ

Associated with slower disease progression and lower doses of required drugs

Released: 11-Oct-2023 5:00 AM EDT
Microbial Metabolites: A New Link to Parkinson's Disease?
University of Vienna

Published in Environment International, a groundbreaking study from the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with the University of Konstanz and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, reveals a microbial metabolite's role in inducing Parkinson's-like symptoms.

   
Released: 3-Oct-2023 6:05 AM EDT
Researchers find a cause of Parkinson’s disease
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Until recently, our understanding of Parkinson's disease has been quite limited, which has been apparent in the limited treatment options and management of this debilitating condition.

Released: 27-Sep-2023 12:50 PM EDT
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Newswise: Do cyanobacteria make the neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA)?
Released: 23-Sep-2023 10:30 AM EDT
Do cyanobacteria make the neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA)?
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The cyanobacterial origin of β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), an environmental neurotoxin, remains controversial. With a carefully designed genetic system as a control, we found no evidence for the production of BMAA by cyanobacteria from lab cultures or bloom samples.

Released: 22-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
ParkinSINGs Program at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Center Receives Support from Parkinson’s Foundation
Hackensack Meridian Health

ParkinSINGs Program at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Center Receives Support from Parkinson’s Foundation

Newswise: Brigham researchers uncover ‘circular logic’ of RNAs in Parkinson’s disease
Released: 19-Sep-2023 6:05 AM EDT
Brigham researchers uncover ‘circular logic’ of RNAs in Parkinson’s disease
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Researchers are gaining new insights into neurological diseases by studying circular RNAs (circRNAs) in brain cells.

Released: 17-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Newly discovered trigger of Parkinson’s upends common beliefs
Northwestern University

A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges a common belief in what triggers Parkinson’s disease. Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is widely accepted as the first event that leads to Parkinson’s.

Released: 11-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
"Stereotyped, devalued and shunned." Experts address treating the stigma of Parkinson’s disease
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Even the best treatment approaches for Parkinson’s disease are inadequate if they do not address patients’ feelings of social rejection, isolation, loneliness and other psychosocial effects of stigma, according to a report from experts specializing in Parkinson’s and other movement disorders.

Newswise: SMU professor wins $1.8M NIH award to study how our bodies may work to repair damaged components in cells
Released: 7-Sep-2023 9:55 AM EDT
SMU professor wins $1.8M NIH award to study how our bodies may work to repair damaged components in cells
Southern Methodist University

SMU biology professor Zhihao Wu has received a $1.8 million, 5-year Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health to determine if different quality control pathways in our bodies might be working together to repair damaged components in cells.

Released: 25-Aug-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Dance as a performative art form enhanced identity negotiation and strengthened group identity in people with Parkinson’s disease
University of Eastern Finland

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland and Balettakademien Stockholm found that performing in a dance company and being involved in its activities play a significant role in the identity and disease-related identity negotiation in people with Parkinson’s disease.



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