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Condition Overview Prevention Diagnosis Research Clinical Trials Treatments Events Lifestyle Emotional Impacts View All Mar '052 Cleveland Clinic Announces Online Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Pre-Evaluation by StaffTreatments Read Full Article Feb '0524 LentiVector-based Gene Transfer Therapy for the treatment of late stage Parkinson's Disease by StaffCondition Overview Read Full Article Feb '0523 Levodopa and Parkinson's by StaffCondition Overview Read Full Article Feb '0522 Providing Care for Parkinson's Patients by StaffLifestyle Read Full Article Feb '0521 Diagnosing Parkinson's Disease by StaffUnknown Category Parkinson's Disease is one of many neurological disorders that exhibit similar physical symptoms. Therefore, the diagnosis of PD is not easy. Blood tests only in the rarest of cases have established PD. Electroencephalograms (EEGs), while recording electrical brain activity, does not effectively determine PD. MRI and CAT scans, and for that matter, the brains of people with PD, appear normal. None of these electromagnetic methodologies diagnose Parkinson's Disease simply because PD is a neurological disorder on a chemical level. The diagnosis, to date, is based on the judgment of PD specialists. Read Full Article Feb '0519 Vitamin Therapies to Parkinson's Disease by StaffTreatments A study released in 2001 by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers quantified the use of alternative therapies and determined that out of a sampling of 201 patients, 40 percent of them used one or multiple alternative therapies consisting of vitamins, herbs, massage, and acupuncture. (For your information, 26 percent reported using two therapies, 33 percent reported more than two, and 12 percent used five or more therapies.) In today's blog, we'll concentrate on vitamin and herb therapies. Read Full Article Feb '0518 Future Horizons in Parkinson's Drugs by StaffTreatments To date, CEP-1347/Lu 02-648 has prevented neuron cell death in vitro and prevented neuronal degeneration in animals with PD. Read Full Article « Prev 1 2 ... 59 60 6162Next »

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