Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United States, with approximately 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Although ...

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s movement signal. A wave of new research is now overturning that picture, ...

Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation have shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in Parkinson's disease, finding that preserved dopamine in certain brain ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that suppressing excitatory synaptic transmission in a small group of ...

Study: Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: mozakim / Shutterstock.com Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative ...

New research identifies two main Parkinson's disease subtypes and five subgroups, explaining why single treatments often fail ...

Dopamine agonists are medications that mimic the effects of dopamine, which can be helpful if you have low dopamine levels. Dopamine is a complex and key neurotransmitter responsible for many of our ...

Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in Parkinson’s disease, finding that preserved dopamine in certain brain regions ...