Mar 6, 2025 | General Interest, Living with PD
Shared from myparkinsonsteam.com. Both Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease are progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). “Progressive” means they worsen over time, and “neurodegenerative” means...
Feb 28, 2025 | General Interest, Living with PD
Shared from parkinson.org. Over the past few years, Parkinson’s disease (PD) research has undergone a dramatic transformation. Scientists are moving beyond the traditional focus on the brain alone and adopting a whole systems approach to understanding the...
Feb 28, 2025 | Living with PD
Shared from myparkinsonsteam.com. Do you find yourself digging through the snack cabinet at night for a cookie or piece of chocolate or downing sugary coffee drinks in the morning? Interestingly, these sugar cravings may be linked to your Parkinson’s disease....
Feb 21, 2025 | Living with PD
Shared from michaeljfox.org. Movement disorder specialist, lifestyle medicine physician and MJFF Principal Medical Advisor Rachel Dolhun, MD, DipABLM, answers community questions on Parkinson’s and exercise with physical therapist and rehab scientist Cristina...
Feb 21, 2025 | Living with PD
Shared from brainandlife.org. By the time Bette Loomis was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment in 2015, she had been experiencing considerable forgetfulness and getting lost in familiar places for nearly two years. Her doctor prescribed galantamine, a...
Feb 21, 2025 | Caregiver Articles, Living with PD
Shared from myparkinsonsteam.com. Key Facts About Hallucinations and Delusions What Causes Hallucinations and Delusions in Parkinson’s? 6 Facts About Parkinson’s That Aren’t Well Known Seeing Objects Out of the Corner of Your Eye and Other Parkinson’s...
