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MJFF AI Competition Helps Decode Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s
July 16, 2024
… measure FOG incidents using accelerometer data collected from a wearable sensor. Measuring these incidents allows … in June 2024. There, the authors note that 1,379 teams from 83 countries submitted 24,862 solutions, with the …
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Episode 29: Developing a Novel App to Improve Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease with Dr. Gemma Moya-Galé
December 17, 2024
… a novel app she and her team are developing, with funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation, to help people with … is understood. The app uses evidence-based principles from speech therapy and noise-augmented automatic speech …
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New York Times: New Plan to Halt Alzheimer’s is a “Long Shot” but “Payoff Could Be Huge”
May 21, 2012
… day develop the disease.” Most trial participants will come from the world’s largest family to experience Alzheimer’s, made up of 5,000 people from Medellín, Colombia and its surrounding areas, where …
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Ask Us Anything About Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Day
November 13, 2024
… to be awake during brain surgery and more. Tune in to hear from two people who have had DBS, a neurosurgeon and a … also known as PPMI, is recruiting volunteers. People from all backgrounds with and without Parkinson’s can help …
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Who’s that Intern? Four questions for Naomi Glickman
August 20, 2013
… Marketing and Communication’s intern, Ashleigh Levett from Sydney, Australia, is hosting a Summer Intern Q&A … as possible. What is the one thing you hope to take away from your internship at MJFF? One of the reasons I chose to …
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Blood Pumping with Iron Could Prevent Parkinson’s Disease
June 11, 2013
… Parkinson’s disease (PD)? It’s possible, says a new study from researchers at The European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano in … past week, Frasier discussed some of these initial findings from PPMI with MJFF Contributing Editor Dave Iverson, …