… Ex By Darren Garnick  After leaving a career on Wall Street to help launch the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s … in the nonprofit sector. Forget about the cause. “If you’re coming from a go-go job and you want to try life in the … make an easier career transition, but suggests that people need not be held hostage by their bank statement. “Yes, a …

… fall, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) held a workshop to address a budding, and potentially field-altering, … surrounds the creation of the first-ever research model to show both this cell-to-cell spread of alpha-synuclein … both could help researchers to better zero in on novel targets for Parkinson’s drugs.  Most imminently, knowing that …

… a matter of random chance.  That all changed when her doctor asked, “Are you Ashkenazi Jewish?” She then learned … testing that she carried a LRRK2 variant — one of the most common genetic contributors to Parkinson’s that is … grandchildren to turn to research stating, “I want to get my family answers.” In 2014, Sherry enrolled in The Michael …

… week announced a planned decade-long government initiative to draw a comprehensive map of the activity of the human brain toward gaining greater insight into how it works. And according to The New York Times , …

… affect the brain alone, the field has only recently started to investigate gut dysfunction in experimental models of PD. … disruption of ENS circuitry mitigates gut-brain disease outcome and evaluate whether spiny mice (a rodent model that can repair damaged tissue) shows protection from PD-related gut-brain degeneration.  …

… When Mark Sigel, age 12, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, set out to undertake his Bar Mitzvah project, he immediately thought … living with Parkinson’s. A Bar Mitzvah is, of course, a coming of age ritual in the Jewish tradition, and often, … The response was very encouraging: Already, more than 10 have signed up. His support of PD research doesn’t stop …