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Using Deep Brain Stimulation to Understand and Treat Dystonia Associated with Parkinson’s Disease
… Study Rationale: Dystonia and Parkinson's disease (PD) are closely related … Some experts estimate that 40 percent of people with PD experience dystonia as an early symptom or complication of treatment. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a …
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Study in Norwegian Population to Identify Therapies with Repurposing Potential for Parkinson’s Disease
… disease. Developing a new therapeutic can cost up to 2.6 billion dollars and takes many years of screening, … a promising approach to review drugs already developed and with well-known safety profiles in other conditions for … nationwide Norwegian prescription database, which includes comprehensive information about 600 million prescriptions …
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Deep brain imaging to determine movement of compounds relevant to Parkinson's disease
… Objective/Rationale: Clinical trials with a number of agents suggest that the ability of compounds to move through the interstitial spaces of the brain is a …
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Phase IB Follow-up Study to Assess Boost Immunization with AFFITOPE® PD01A
… upon the research from a prior grant: First-in-human Trial to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of PD01, the First … demonstrated multiple (n=4) subcutaneous vaccinations with two different doses of PD01A (15 and 75 µg) to be safe … clinical development of PD01A. Trial phase: IB Final Outcome AFFITOPE® PD01A was safe and well tolerated, achieving …
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Blood Test for Stratifying People with Parkinson’s Disease based on Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Neurons
… (PD) and other synucleinopathies are diagnosed based on symptoms and clinical testing. However, these tests can be … and postmortem analysis reveals that 20 to 30% of people with PD are misdiagnosed. Blood tests for detecting … most of the alpha-synuclein found in the blood does not come from the brain. We propose to overcome this problem by …
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Listen to BBC News: “The Truth about Parkinson’s” with MJFF CEO Todd Sherer
October 16, 2019
… “The goal of the Fox Foundation is to close — I really look forward to that day when I get to … and other Parkinson’s disease (PD) experts — people living with the disease and scientists from around the world — … population of the people involved in research. Genetics becomes a starting point for this research and can expand to …