#parkinsons

[willowreader]

Michael Okun The National Medical advisor for The Parkinsons Foundation has this to say. "There will be a 150% increase in Parkinson after COVID like we saw in 1918 flu says expert researcher Richard Smeyne #mdscongress today. If he is right, we better prepare for this growth and redouble efforts in prevention, research and care! #parkinson"

The Parkinsons disease and Covid connection. Do you know anyone diagnosed with Parkinsons lately? I do.

https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29116

[mindblowingscience]

A decline in motor skills is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease, regularly taking the form of slowness, rigidity, and tremors. Yet the condition commonly affects other neurological functions as well, impacting mood and causing a decline in cognition. A drug that blocks a key receptor linked with blood pressure has shown promise recovering memory in models of vascular dementia, inspiring researchers from the University of Arizona to test the treatment on mice with Parkinson's-like symptoms.

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[augmentedpolls]

Neurodevelopmental disorders examples: ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, sensory processing disorder

Neurological disorders examples: epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, MS

[analytik2]

a lesson in media literacy and statistics, perhaps

[spookietrex]

Had a neurologist appointment today that went really well. It was nice to just be...heard for once. I started in on my "my doctors aren't listening to me and are making things up" speech and she started to cut me off until I cut her off and explained that a certain hospital near us had actually documented in my medical record that I'd thrown up on purpose. (I didn't. They'd asked about nausea but unfortunately I'm dissociative in the hospital...especially if you're trying to involuntarily hospitalize me) and she stopped. She documented my symptoms and referred me to another provider who can actually help evaluate me for Parkinsons because my symptoms are more than just functional neurological disorder and I'm tired of being dismissed. She actually watched my videos of my tremoring and my muscles convulsing involuntarily and it switching sides.

[bpod-bpod]

Conversation Starters

Neurons communicate with chemicals – bursts of neurotransmitters which pass signals from one cell to the next. While the brain’s millions of neurons may look a little chaotic, their chemical chatter is in a fine balance that changes with age and disease. Normally, dopaminergic neurons squirt a neurotransmitter called dopamine into different brain areas, influencing processes such as movement, reward and motivation. Here researchers grow human dopaminergic neurons (highlighted in orange) from stem cells in a dish. With so many important roles in the brain, they investigate how the cells deteriorate in Parkinson’s Disease – specifically, how a toxic chemical called alpha-synuclein (which builds up in Parkinson’s) affects the cultured cells. The next step is to see if new drugs can slow down or stop alpha-synuclein, staving off symptoms.

Written by John Ankers

Winning image by Nick Gatford of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Image category of the University of Oxford's Department of Biochemistry Centenary Scientific Imaging Competition

Image copyright held by Nick Gatford

Research published in Nature Communications, June 2021

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[ricisidro]

A peer-reviewed study on macaque monkeys showed a disturbing increased presence of tau proteins and the consequential neurodegeneration and neuro inflammation of the glial cells in all monkeys, published in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia (2024).

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #braininflammation #Parkinsons #dementia #Alzheimers #memoryloss #cognitive

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/alz.13868

[denimixart]

Na chorobę Parkinsona zapadają coraz młodsi.... Dwadzieścia kilka lat to nie jest czas na Parkinsona, a jednak zdarza się. ☹️

Jak powiedział profesor Jarosław Sławek, specjalista w dziedzinie neurologii:

"Chorują rzeczywiście coraz to młodsi pacjenci. Szacunkowo do 2040 roku na świecie ma już chorować 16 milionów ludzi dzisiaj to jest około 6-8 mln, czyli ta liczba będzie naprawdę wzrastać… “

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The micrographs in figure 24.20 show that one sHsp, αB-crystallin, prevents in vitro amyloid fibril formation by the protein α-synuclein, the major component of Lewy body deposits in Parkinson's disease.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[cherylreeves]

My daddy fought a long battle with #Parkinson’s and #PTSD from Vietnam war. He loved God and honoured him. He is in Heaven now. Can I be relieved for him and yet just so sad too? #Grief #mourning #processing

[willowreader]

https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29116

Click on the link above for the article.

[mindblowingscience]

A colossal study has revealed a variation of a gene involved in an immune response has been secretly giving protection to the billions who carry it from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Known as DR4, the variant, or allele, is part of a family of genes that normally help our immune system pinpoint and destroy foreign invaders, like bacteria and viruses. "In an earlier study, we'd found that carrying the DR4 allele seemed to protect against Parkinson's disease," says psychiatrist and geneticist Emmanual Mignot from Stanford University in the US, the institution that led the study. But Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are distinct conditions with different pathological biomarkers in the brain – Lewy bodies for Parkinson's, and abnormal tangles of a protein called tau in Alzheimer's. Discovering DR4 as a common factor was astounding.

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

[dbaydenny]

My brother carved peace

in wild ducks, graceful swimmers,

perfect placed feathers,

details sublime, realistic

until Parkinsons took him.

.

D W Eldred

[randomrichards]

STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE

Fame’s impact on Fox

How he lived with Parkinson’s

Life never stood still