Protein variant presents a potential new target for developing ...
23 hours ago · Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) discovered a new factor in the pathology of Parkinson's disease, which in the future may serve as a target for developing new treatments for this terrible ...
Parkinson’s Disease Associated With Neuroinflammation in the …
6 days ago · While Parkinson’s disease is primarily known for motor symptoms that result from the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons, it also causes prefrontal cortex dysfunction. The prefrontal cortex is the region of the brain associated with complex cognitive functions such as decision-making, attention, and working memory.
Lower Dementia Risk Than Previously Thought in Parkinson’s
Aug 8, 2024 · There’s some good news for people with Parkinson’s disease: The risk of developing dementia may be lower than previously thought, or dementia may occur later in the course of the disease than previously reported, according to a study published in the August 7, 2024, online issue of Neurology.
DMTs are major clinical research focus for Parkinson’s disease ...
1 day ago · Alongside DMTs, treating non-motor symptoms is also becoming a key research focus, highlighted by analysis which shows that 3% of the pipeline is specifically targeting Parkinson’s disease dementia (experienced by up to 80% of people with Parkinson’s) and Parkinson’s disease psychosis (experienced to some degree by between 20% and 40% of ...
Parkinson's Dementia: Stages, Symptoms, Causes, and Outlook
Oct 12, 2024 · Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) is a feature of Parkinson's disease, a progressive movement disorder associated with both motor (movement-related) and nonmotor symptoms. Dementia causes symptoms like difficulties with memory and making decisions and changes in behavior and mood.
Do people with Parkinson’s always develop dementia? - Medical News Today
Aug 14, 2024 · It has been believed that dementia occurred in about 80% of people who had Parkinson’s as early as eight years after diagnosis. In one of the investigations, just 9% of people with Parkinson’s...
In Parkinson's, dementia may occur less often or later than ... - UPI
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- People with Parkinson 's disease fear developing dementia, but their risk may be less than once believed, or it could strike later than expected in the movement...
PET scans may predict Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia …
Nov 7, 2023 · In a small study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the heart may identify people who will go on to develop Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia among those at-risk for these diseases.
Parkinson disease-associated cognitive impairment - Nature
Jul 1, 2021 · Cognitive impairment is common in patients with Parkinson disease and ranges in severity. This Primer reviews the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment...
Researchers identify a potential biomarker of Parkinson's disease ...
1 day ago · This research follows a 2021 study by the same research team, which found that ecto-GPR37, present on neuronal cells in the brain, could be a promising candidate diagnostic biomarker for Parkinson ...