Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are both caused by damage to brain cells and can happen at the same time. Alzheimer's disease always causes dementia, but Parkinson's disease can cause it too, ...

Cogwheeling is a type of rigidity seen in people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s often an early symptom of Parkinson’s, and it may be used to make a diagnosis. Cogwheeling, also known as cogwheel ...

Each year, about 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) in the United States. Worldwide, more than 10 million people are living with PD. It's one of the most common ...

Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, ...

Royal Stoke patients with advanced Parkinson’s are to benefit from a new life-changing treatment which involves wearing a portable device 24 hours a day. The new treatment being launched at University ...

A patient from Cheshire with advanced Parkinson’s has benefited from a new life-changing treatment which involves wearing a portable device 24 hours a day. The new treatment has been launched at ...

Background: Parkinsonian syndromes may rarely occur in motor neuron disease (MND). However, previous studies are heterogeneous and mostly case reports or small case series. Therefore, we aimed to ...

and Purpose It is generally believed that eye movements are completely spared in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Although a series of eye movement abnormalities has been recognized in recent ...

Parkinson’s disease affects the control of movement throughout the body. This includes the facial muscles that are used to express emotion. When the movements of the face are rigid or slow to respond, ...

This is part of an occasional series of columns on Lewy body dementia, other dementias, and end of life issues, by a long-time writer who happens to have LBD. The chart is a 10-question check-up list ...

Diane Simpson sets usually separate parts of the brain cogwheeling together in mental motions as surprising and satisfying as choreography. Simpson, who is 80 and lives in Chicago, is the subject of a ...