Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that targeting neuronal signaling controlling aberrant learning in the ...

For more than 200 years, ever since a British apothecary named James Parkinson in 1817 published “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy,” scientists have searched for the reasons why some people develop ...

A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly enables movement in the background, much like oil in an engine. When ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a ...

Brett Favre shared an update on his health a year after revealing he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, saying he is in the ...

Hope is preparing for close-out meetings with the FDA. Chang said the team is “hopeful to advance to a phase 3 confirmatory trial” of the stem cell therapy candidate.

Oral bacteria that migrate to the gut can generate metabolites that reach the brain and accelerate Parkinson’s disease.

"It hangs like a cloud over you." In the UK more than 160,000 people currently live with the condition, which, over time, can ...

The author of Heated Rivalry has revealed the success of the TV adaptation has led to her receiving specialist help with her ...

Brett Favre shares an honest update on living with Parkinson’s, clearing myths about symptoms and explaining how the disease ...