… therefore provides a potential target for methods designed to monitor the disease process in PD. We plan to modify a … This imaging tool could also be used to help understand how proteins like alpha-synuclein may contribute to the … Project Description:  Our international collaboration will combine the work of Omar El-Agnaf who has developed and …

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… running the hedge fund she co-founded since 1992. But this "Fast Money" contributor also believes in giving back to others. When her mother-in-law was diagnosed with …

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… Cutting-edge technologies are allowing scientists to uncover more genetic connections to Parkinson's disease. … 80 genetic locations that appear to influence the risk of getting Parkinson's. While this is a huge leap in our … discovering that variations in the  SNCA  gene were common in several families who had many members with …

… one arm isn’t swinging as freely as the other can be clues to a Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis, but there is still no blood test, biopsy or imaging scan that can definitively tell you that you have PD. For now, doctors rely on a clinical assessment, and even the best …