Scientists have, for the first time, directly visualized and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson's, ...

A hallmark of Parkinson’s is the presence of abnormal protein clumps, known as Lewy bodies, in the brain. However, some ...

Scientists have developed a new technique which allows them to see tiny clusters in the brain which are believed to trigger ...

For more than a decade, Carnegie Mellon neuroscientist Aryn Gittis has been unraveling the mystery of how the brain controls movement — research now pointing toward new treatments for Parkinson’s ...

A new study has identified a specific substance produced by a common gut bacterium that can travel to the brain and cause the ...

The Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, together with multiple ...

Gandhi and colleagues reported on their findings in Nature Biomedical Engineering, in a paper titled “ Large-scale visualization of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s disease brain tissue ,” in ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that Parkinson’s patients diagnosed in their 80s are far more likely to show signs of amyloid ...

One of the defining features of Parkinson’s is the presence of abnormal protein clumps in the brain known as Lewy bodies. However, some scientists believe these larger clumps originate from much ...

Researchers discovered Human Pegivirus in brain tissue from five of ten Parkinson's patients, suggesting the virus may play a ...

Two landmark international studies show that brain biomarkers can predict whether people with REM sleep behaviour disorder ...