Researchers have discovered how a surface protein on brain cells, called Aplp1, can play a role in spreading material ...

Mayo Clinic's Neurobiology of Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders Lab is deciphering the role of aggregation and ...

"Given the prominence of early gastrointestinal issues in Parkinson's, there has been a theory suggesting that the pathology that causes Parkinson's can originate in the GI tract and travel to the ...

“If you want to know if someone has Parkinson’s, the only way to know for sure is, when they die, eventually you look in their brains, and the pathology is the disease,” said Russ ...

What causes Parkinson's disease is unclear. An idea first developed about 20 years ago is the gut-first hypothesis, which proposes that in a subset of patients, alpha-synuclein pathology ...

A test of spinal fluid may be able to predict who is likely to develop Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms appear, according to a new study. Parkinson’s is a degenerative syndrome that ...

Alberto J. Espay, MD, MSc, discusses a new biological definition of Parkinson's disease that is based on pathology identified through spinal fluid testing. The test uses the principles of ...

A neuronal protein called alpha-synuclein is the culprit in Parkinson’s disease, and a diagnosis is typically confirmed by the discovery of alpha-synuclein pathology in the post-mortem brain.

“And more recently, surprisingly, we found that in those people who do develop these symptoms that it’s often not the typical pathology, but often it’s CTE that’s causing their Parkinson ...

North Coast Speech Pathology has announced the SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program is now available through its speech-language pathology office. The SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program, developed by Parkinson ...