Today, April 11, is World Parkinson’s Day. My first experience with a Parkinson’s disease patient came in one of my first jobs after college. Toiling as a reporter at a trade newspaper called Photo ...

Millions worldwide grapple with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While both worsen over time, ...

In this Healio video, David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, discusses a plenary session on protein aggregate clearance in aging brains presented at the 2025 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and ...

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre joins a list of celebrities, like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali, who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It’s a common but complex neurodegenerative ...

A mini-peptide has been created that delays the early damage caused by Parkinson's disease and promises a way to slow down ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of later life, defined clinically by motor features (asymmetric bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and imbalance) and pathologically by neuronal degeneration ...