26/07/2010 | Bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation leads to sustained reductions in Parkinson's disease tremor even among those with the most severe tremor at baseline, a review of Korean patients has concluded.
26/07/2010 | Research suggests vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of cognitive decline and Parkinson's disease in older adults.
12/07/2010 | Dopamine agonists may be more effective than catechol-o-methyltransferase inhibitors or monoamine oxidase type B inhibitors as an adjuvant therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease who are being treated with levodopa, a Cochrane Review concludes.
28/06/2010 | An Australian study has developed a suite of measures that predict falls in patients with Parkinson's disease with high specificity and sensitivity.
17/05/2010 | The dopamine agonist pramipexole improves depressive symptoms as well as motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease research shows.
03/05/2010 | Deep brain stimulation in addition to drug therapy leads to better quality of life in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease than drugs alone, new research shows.
06/04/2010 | Psychotic phenomena associated with Parkinson’s disease are more common but more varied than previously reported, French neurologists have claimed.
22/03/2010 | Parkinson’s disease is over 40 times more prevalent in the Geraldton and Midwest region of Western Australia than in other studied rural Australian populations, research shows.
24/01/2010 | Treadmill training improves gait hypokinesia in Parkinson’s disease patients but it is not known how long these improvements last, a Cochrane review finds.
11/01/2010 | Researchers have developed an image-based classification algorithm that has high specificity in distinguishing between parkinsonian disorders and could help in selecting treatment for early stage patients and identifying participants for clinical trials.