Extrapyramidal and movement disorders (8 contents)
Parkinson's disease (47 contents)
What is Parkinson's disease and how is it treated?
Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects the nervous system, leading to progressive loss of motor skills. Understanding the symptoms, causes and available treatments is...
Cannabis a cure for Parkinson's disease?
Parkinson's disease affects millions of people around the world. Where does it come from? How is it treated and is cannabis a remedy to combat its symptoms?
Senior care. When is a retirement home the only option?
Ageing is a natural process that brings with it many challenges, both for the senior and his or her family. In this article, we will address issues related to caring for a senior and discuss...
Can menthol improve memory in Alzheimer's patients?
New research suggests that inhaling menthol may help treat Alzheimer's. This is indicated by a recent experiment conducted on mice. Indeed, scientists found that when mice sniffed the substance,...
Artificial intelligence will detect Parkinson's disease faster!
Researchers have developed an AI tool that can detect Parkinson's disease from blood samples. Artificial intelligence can spot the possibility of the disease 15 years before the onset of symptoms...
Cholesterol drugs helpful in the prevention of Parkinson's disease
French researchers demonstrate the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering drugs in Parkinson's disease.
Polycystic atrophy and camptocormia - what are these diseases?
Camptocormia is a process involving bending of the lower back. It is one of the characteristic symptoms of Parkinson's disease and other multisystem atrophy. What is the cause of the disease? What...
Frequent nightmares may be a harbinger of Parkinson's disease
A study by researchers at the University of Birmingham has revealed that recurring nightmares could be an early warning sign of developing Parkinson's disease. This neurological disease has...
Speech disorders may herald Parkinson's disease
According to researchers from Charles University in Prague and the Czech Technical University in Prague, speech disorders occur in 90 per cent of patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This...
Australian scientists have created a hydrogel to combat Parkinson's disease
Researchers in Australia have developed a hydrogel that can be applied in one treatment to patients with Parkinson's disease and possibly to people with other neurological diseases. When the gel,...
Parkinson's disease: the impact of a proper diet in controlling the condition
Parkinson's disease is a neurological condition in which dopamine-producing brain cells die. It directly affects a person's mobility and is most commonly associated with hand tremor, although this is...
What can be the causes of excessive drooling?
While the drooling of a baby does not attract much attention, it is definitely not the case with older people - drooling in a teenager or an elderly person is not normal. What is more, if such a...
Why can sugar be addictive? - Intriguing reports from the field of neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychiatry is one of the most rapidly developing medical fields in recent years. Thanks to the scientists working in this discipline, we are learning all sorts of things about how the nervous...
Can stem cells cure?
Stem cells were supposed to revolutionise medicine - this is likely to happen as soon as the mechanisms governing these cells are better understood.
Motor dysfunction in diseases of the central nervous system
All daily motor activities depend on the proper functioning of the central and peripheral motor neuron, extrapyramidal tract, cerebellum, reticular formation, frontal lobe and locomotor organ. Damage...
Parkinson's disease: can patients be helped by... estrogen supplementation?
It has been known for a relatively long time that Parkinson's disease is associated with increasing motor neuron deficits, leading to the onset of Parkinson's symptoms. As current treatments for...
There is a link between sleep disorders and Parkinson's disease
Czech researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) in Klecany near Prague conducted a study that focused on the onset of Parkinson's disease. It shows that a blood test focusing on...
Developing a new treatment for Parkinson's disease and an alternative route of drug delivery
One of the abnormalities associated with Parkinson's disease is the degeneration of dopamine-secreting nerve cells - it is due to deficiencies in this neurotransmitter that patients develop...
People without an appendix are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease
Can the absence of an appendix reduce the chance of ... the onset of Parkinson's disease? It turns out that yes! This has been proven by researchers in the United States. They report that the...
World Parkinson's Disease Day
11 April is celebrated as World Parkinson's Disease Day. The date commemorates the birthday of James Parkinson, a British physician who lived at the turn of the 18th century and described the...
Parkinson's disease without secrets
Parkinson 's disease is a chronic, progressive, neurodegenerative disease. The most important and at the same time the most visible symptoms of the disease include a tremor in the limbs, which most...
The immune system and Parkinson's disease: a new link between the two has been discovered
Just as the causes of some diseases have been known for years, the causes of others are still unclear. This is the case with Parkinson's disease, for example. Scientists are still searching for what...
Blood tests will serve to differentiate between conditions on the parkinsonism spectrum?
The symptoms of people with Parkinson's disease and those with so-called atypical parkinsonisms may be similar, but differences may relate to how these patients should be treated. Differentiation...
