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 ...

More than 1 million Americans live with tremors, slowed movement and speech changes caused by Parkinson's disease—a degenerative and currently incurable condition, according to the Parkinson's ...

Researchers are interested in ways to prevent Parkinson’s disease from occurring in the first place. A recent study in mice found that components of the seaweed Ecklonia cava may help prevent ...

Women with a precursor condition to Parkinson’s disease showed significantly less brain atrophy than their male counterparts despite similar clinical severity, according to an October study published ...

Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of the legendary heavy metal rock band Black Sabbath, died this week at age 76. Although Osbourne's cause of death hasn't yet been publicly released, he revealed in an ...

An analysis method that finds patterns within signals can distinguish the gait of a patient with Parkinson’s with 100% ...

Disruption of the gut microbiome is a feature of both conditions, but experts do not know if this gut dysbiosis underlies the link between the two diseases. A new study comparing the microbiomes of ...

Increased exposure to air pollution in the form of particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm or less (PM 2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) was associated with a higher risk for Parkinson's disease, ...