Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Era in Parkinson’s Disease Treatment

Posted on by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

How Adaptive DBS Aims to Offer More Personalized and Effective Therapy When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...see more deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) in 2002, it revolutionized the PD treatment landscape. DBS has since become a very effective therapy for certain patients whose symptoms are no longer adequately controlled by medication […]

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Nanocarrier Breakthrough Offers Hope for Parkinson’s Disease Treatment

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How Nanocarriers Overcome a Major Hurdle in Parkinson’s Treatment Delivering medications to the brain is one of the most...see more significant challenges in modern medicine. The brain is protected by an incredibly selective shield known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a defense mechanism that keeps out toxins and harmful agents but also prevents many therapeutic drugs […]

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Exploring Non-Invasive Neuromodulation for Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

What is neuromodulation and how can it be used to treat Parkinson’s disease? Medication remains the primary method of...see more treating Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, neuromodulation, or therapies that involve the manipulation of brain circuitry, can also be very effective in controlling PD symptoms in particular clinical situations. Two current neuromodulatory techniques for PD are deep […]

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New Parkinson’s Disease Treatments in the Clinical Trial Pipeline

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Promising New Treatments for Parkinson’s: What’s in the Clinical Trial Pipeline? There remains an urgent unmet need for Parkinson’s...see more disease (PD) treatments that slow or halt the underlying neurodegenerative process that leads to disease progression. Much research is focused on this, with clinical trials underway. It is also critical that medications continue to be developed […]

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Creativity in People with Parkinson’s Disease

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The benefits of artistic activities for people with Parkinson’s Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complicated and long-term condition that...see more often impacts both physical and mental health. Traditional medical and surgical treatments are not always enough to help people with PD live life to the fullest, and creative activities – from visual arts and music to […]

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Exploring the Variations of Carbidopa/Levodopa: The Mainstay of Parkinson’s Disease Treatment

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How carbidopa/levodopa is used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms Loss of neurons in the brain that use dopamine to...see more communicate is one of the hallmark features of Parkinson’s disease (PD), causing slowness, stiffness, tremor, and balance problems. Replacing the brain’s dopamine is therefore one of the key treatment strategies to help improve the motor symptoms […]

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The Future of Parkinson’s Disease Treatments

Posted on by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

The Parkinson’s Disease Medication Pipeline The pipeline for Parkinson’s disease (PD) medications is extremely crowded these days, with multiple...see more medications at various stages of research development. This is very exciting news for the PD community and is a perfect example of the “hope in progress” part of our organization’s motto. It is thrilling to see […]

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What is a DaTscan and should I get one?

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DaTscan: A test to help in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s What is a DaTscan and how is it performed?...see more In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an imaging test to help diagnose Parkinson’s disease (PD) called DaTscan (dopamine transporter scan). In this test, a radioactive tracer, Ioflupane (123I), also known as DaTscan, is injected […]

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Gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease

Posted on by Rebecca Gilbert, MD, Ph.D.

What is gene therapy and can it help people with Parkinson’s? You may have read about efforts to use...see more gene therapy as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD). It’s an exciting prospect and studies are underway, with some positive results so far. Understanding these studies and therapies requires some background information about what genes are […]

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