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Following a traumatic brain injury, veteran Michael Schneider found that art and music therapy helped him manage his epilepsy and PTSD. Schneider explains that by playing music, he can prevent a seizure.

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

Feb 19, 2022
Arts therapies appear to ease brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. Now, artists and scientists have launched an effort to understand how these treatments change the brain.
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A brain circuit tied to emotion may lead to better treatments for Parkinson's disease

Feb 07, 2022
The symptoms of Parkinson's disease can vanish briefly in the face of stress or a strong emotion. Now scientists are searching for a treatment based on this phenomenon, a form of the placebo effect.
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A study finds some evidence that a cancer drug, nilotinib, may help people with Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder that causes movement problems. It possibly works by raising levels of dopamine, the brain chemical that is lacking in people wi

A Cancer Drug For Parkinson's? New Study Raises Hope, Draws Criticism

Dec 16, 2019
A leukemia drug seemed to help patients with Parkinson's disease. But critics say the results are equivocal and could raise false hopes.
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Jazz legend Billie Holiday at a recording session in 1957. Holiday's pioneering vocal style played with tempo, phrasing and pitch to stir hearts.

How The Brain Helps You Sing Or Say What You Mean

Jul 27, 2018
The richness of human vocal communication turns partly on our ability to control pitch, scientists say. Consider the difference you hear between "Let's eat, Grandma" and "Let's eat Grandma."
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Pfizer said it would be abandoning its neuroscience development programs and allocating its spending elsewhere.

Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Treatments

Jan 08, 2018
The pharmaceutical giant said it would be abandoning its neuroscience development programs and allocating its spending elsewhere. The move also means the company will lay off some 300 employees.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been receiving outpatient treatment for Parkinson's disease from Northwestern Medicine.

Jesse Jackson Says He Has Parkinson's Disease

Nov 17, 2017
Jackson, 76, was diagnosed with the motor system disorder in 2015, according to the facility where he is undergoing treatment. "For me, a Parkinson's diagnosis is not a stop sign," he says.
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When the neurons that release the neurotransmitter dopamine die, people develop Parkinson's disease.

Brain Cell Transplants Are Being Tested Once Again For Parkinson's

Jun 13, 2017
In 2003, researchers declared a moratorium on the use of transplanted brain cells to treat Parkinson's disease. Now, armed with better cells, they're giving the approach another try.
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23andMe is now allowed to market tests that assess genetic risks for 10 health conditions, including Parkinson's and late-onset Alzheimer's diseases.

FDA Approves Marketing Of Consumer Genetic Tests For Some Conditions

Apr 07, 2017
The company 23andMe is now allowed to market tests that assess genetic risks for 10 health conditions, including Parkinson's and late-onset Alzheimer's diseases.
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A colored magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain of a 76-year-old patient with dementia shows the brain has atrophied and the dark brown fluid-filled spaces have become enlarged.

Cancer Drug That Might Slow Parkinson's, Alzheimer's Headed For Bigger Tests

Mar 15, 2017
In a preliminary study, the cancer drug nilotinib seemed to help patients with Parkinson's and dementia. Now two larger and more rigorous studies of the drug are under way.
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Ford Inbody (right) and his wife Cortney (left) now live with his grandmother outside Kansas City, so they can save money for the day when Ford's Parkinson's disease will likely force him to stop working.

A Young Man With Parkinson's Worries About The Costs Of A GOP Health Plan

Mar 10, 2017
Ford Inbody has a degenerative disease and is carefully watching the GOP replacement health care bill. Though it covers preexisting conditions, it could still mean he'll get less care for more money.
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The Schwister family — (from left) Tim, Jacob, Kay and Joseph — in 2015, before Kay developed symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Prion Test For Rare, Fatal Brain Disease Helps Families Cope

Feb 06, 2017
Scientists now have a fairly noninvasive way to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare form of dementia. A similar test, they say, might offer earlier diagnoses of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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Physical therapy may not help a person with a progressive chronic disease become well, but it can help slow a decline.

Legal Dispute Continues Over Medicare Coverage Of Physical Therapy

Jan 30, 2017
Under a settlement in 2013, Medicare was supposed to make clear to physical therapists that their services are covered even if beneficiaries aren't improving. But that hasn't been widely accepted.
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This image is from lab-grown brain tissue — a minibrain — infected by Zika virus (white) with neural stem cells in red and neuronal nuclei in green.

'Minibrains' Could Help Drug Discovery For Zika And For Alzheimer's

Nov 13, 2016
Each lab-grown cluster of human cells fits on a pin's head, but contains some of the cell types and circuitry of a real brain. The structures already are offering insights into how Zika attacks.
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Scientists are only beginning to study whether dance does something for people with Parkinson's that more typical physical therapy can't achieve.

Dance Returns The 'Joy Of Movement' To People With Parkinson's

Jan 23, 2016
Many struggle with tremors and balance much of the time, but when the music starts, these people dance. It gives them joy — body and soul. Scientists say dance might have lasting brain benefits, too.
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Sparks Mayor Has Parkinson's Disease; Plans To Finish Term

Nov 16, 2015

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Sparks Mayor Geno Martini says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but intends to serve through the end of his term in November 2018.

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Hoffman says his symptoms have gotten worse since he stopped taking the medication as part of a study.

Can A Cancer Drug Reverse Parkinson's Disease And Dementia?

Oct 17, 2015
People with Parkinson's and related forms of dementia improved dramatically when they took a leukemia drug called nilotinib. Researchers say the drug seems to help brain cells eliminate toxins.
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Oliver Sacks was an author, physician and a professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine.

Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist At The 'Intersection Of Fact And Fable'

Aug 31, 2015
The neurologist, who died Sunday, saw "infinitely moving, dramatic, romantic situations" during his decades studying the human brain. Fresh Air remembers Sacks with two interviews from 1985 and 2012.
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In this colorized image of a brain cell from a person with Alzheimer's, the red tangle in the yellow cell body is a toxic tangle of misfolded "tau" proteins, adjacent to the cell's green nucleus.

Alzheimer's Drugs In The Works Might Help Other Diseases, Too

Jul 19, 2015
By targeting the process that creates toxic clumps of protein in brain cells, scientists hope to help not just Alzheimer's patients, but perhaps also people with Lewy Body dementia and Parkinson's.
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A 3-D reconstruction of a healthy auditory neuron from a chick.

Hackers Teach Computers To Tell Healthy And Sick Brain Cells Apart

Mar 31, 2015
Scientists are still better than computers at assessing a neuron's health by looking at its shape. But an effort that includes an international series of hackathons could help speed the process.
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Quaglia, center, joins a "Rock Steady" cheer at the end of a boxing class.

Fight Parkinson's: Exercise May Be The Best Therapy

Feb 02, 2015
Several times a week, Mike Quaglia dons bright red boxing gloves and pummels a hundred-pound punching bag. He has Parkinson's disease, and the boxing helps alleviate his symptoms.
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