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Validating the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for the Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease
… age group. A need exists for a brief tool that can detect early cognitive impairment. The Montreal Cognitive … tests to 140 PD patients. We will repeat the evaluations yearly for two years. Relevance to Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: A rapid …
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Reduced Habitual Intrusions: An Early Marker of Parkinson's Disease?
… software and recruit small groups of people with early-stage Parkinson's and matched control participants. … predicts fewer of these action slip errors. Impact on Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: If … diagnosis of Parkinson's. Earlier diagnosis may help researchers better understand the disease and develop new …
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Adding a Novel Voice to Parkinson’s Research
February 20, 2013
… interpreting small changes in speech that take place early on in PD is effective in diagnosing the disease more … in detecting Parkinson’s disease. Specifically, we looked into how people’s voices change as quantified through a very … easy to collect data via telephone. The investment into research for our generous volunteers is less than it would …
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Challenges and Treatment of Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease
June 15, 2017
… Cancel Register for Webinar Challenges and Treatment of Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease First Name Last Name … has PD Extended family member or friend had PD I am a researcher, clinician or work with the PD community Other Diagnosis Date ${selected} Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug …
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SUPPLEMENT: Empowering Community Health Workers in Clinical Research: A Proposal to Enhance the MJFF Clinical Research Training Modules with Multimedia for Greater Impact
… as Parkinson’s disease (PD), and their associated clinical research. CHWs are an underutilized workforce that can … of the training is to facilitate a deeper understanding of research enrollment opportunities within the communities … Research Grant …
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Research Data Science Internship
… About Us: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) was founded in 2000 with a single defined … triple-pronged, singularly-defined strategy towards disease research enables a dynamic, motivated, and young organization. MJFF has quickly grown into the largest global funder of Parkinson’s disease …