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, ...

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 ...

Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which afflicts around 1 million Americans, usually begin gradually and worsen over time.