Parkinson’s disease disrupts lives by slowly robbing people of their ability to move, speak, and function with ease. It's the ...

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

This kind of neuron loss is associated with Parkinson’s, but at the time, none of the people had been diagnosed with the disease and their brain scans seemed normal. The brain has its own ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have in a new study unravelled how disrupted brain activity impacts cognitive functions in Parkinson’s patients. The study ...

but to repair the brain circuitry lost due to Parkinson’s disease. “The idea is to place these neuron progenitors [derived from stem cells] right where you need them to connect with other ...

It involved a pacemaker delivering electrical pulses via electrodes implanted in specific spots in the brain. This treatment has been used to treat advanced Parkinson’s since the early 2000s.

have begun using the latest technology — adaptive deep brain stimulation — in his treatment for Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. “Mr. Schena has had Parkinson’s disease ...