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Near Infrared Chronic Intracranial Illumination for Neuroprotection in Parkinson's Disease
… models. An implantable prototype is being assembled from parts already made by industrial companies for deep … preserves behavior and midbrain dopaminergic cells from MPTP toxicity: evidence from two mouse strains. BMC Neuroscience 03/2013 …
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Mjff and Merck Serono (EMD Serono In North America) Join Forces on $2-Million Initiative to Drive Treatments for PD-Related Cognitive Dysfunction and Mood Disorders
December 13, 2007
… Disease , made possible by generous leadership funding from Merck Serono (EMD Serono in North America), affiliates … research programs. “Additionally, while information from other fields must be leveraged in pursuing treatments … Parkinson’s scientists to collaborate with researchers from other areas, including psychiatry, in order to …
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Michael J. Fox Foundation Funds $1.1 Million For Cutting-Edge Approaches To Parkinson's Disease Under Rapid Response Innovation Awards 2008
July 29, 2008
… arena. The program has met with an enthusiastic response from the research community, both within Parkinson’s disease … and LRRK2. Using iPS, the teams are engineering stem cells from skin cells, then using these engineered stem cells to … therapeutic approaches that could prevent these events from occurring. Rahul Srinivasan, MBBS, PhD, and Henry A. …
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $3 Million to Advance Parkinson's Disease Research
April 23, 2010
… in yeast and mammalian cell models prevents cell death from the protein. The project announced today builds further … Hospital Goettingen in Germany is validating findings from earlier studies, funded under MJFF’s Target Validation … in pre-clinical models of PD. With additional funding from the Foundation, Dr. Weishaupt is testing an enhanced …
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Study Finds Parkinson’s $52 Billion Economic Burden Double Previous Estimates
June 13, 2019
… billion each year. Editor's Note (July 9, 2020): The paper from this study was accepted and published in journal npj … Steve DeWitte, a Parkinson’s research funding advocate from New Preston, Connecticut. “The eventual decision to … of Parkinson’s, including publicly available data from Medicare, the Centers for Disease Control and …
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ASTRO: Tremors Respond to Radiosurgery Treatment
November 10, 2009
… major complications." Mark and colleagues reported data from two separate clinical series using gamma knife … disease or essential tremor. All patients were treated from 1991 to 2007. The trigeminal neuralgia cohort included … into the brain stem. The prescribed radiation dose ranged from 70 to 90 Gy administered in a single treatment session. …