Ambroxol, long used for coughs in Europe, stabilized symptoms and brain-damage markers in Parkinson’s dementia patients over ...

Capoeira, a form of martial art disguised as dance, is now being used in Brazil to help patients with Parkinson's disease. The patients say the specific movements of this once-outlawed exercise are ...

Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain ...

Catching Parkinson’s disease early is one of the biggest challenges doctors face. Many people with the condition aren’t ...

A breakthrough brain scan shows Parkinson’s drugs can misfire in the brain, helping some patients less than others. The fix?

In a breakthrough study, scientists found that silencing a single overactive enzyme in the brain reversed early damage caused ...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s affect millions of people and are becoming more common as the ...

A drug commonly used for Parkinson’s disease, called pramipexole, has shown strong results in helping people with depression that hasn’t improved with standard treatments. This new finding comes from ...

A cancer immunotherapy may slow Parkinson’s disease by blocking the spread of harmful brain proteins, Johns Hopkins researchers found.

Now, scientists have come up with a surprisingly simple idea: using the smell of earwax. A new system can detect chemical ...

Inhibiting an overabundant enzyme saved a key component of a brain signaling pathway that is vital for motor control in a ...

Ambroxol chaperones GCase; in a previous study of people with Parkinson's disease, the drug led to increased GCase levels. It ...