Nicole LaBolle noticed a tremor in her arm in her '20s but blamed it on drinking too much coffee and a lack of sleep ...

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for ...

Nicole LaBolle initially dismissed her shaking as something fairly common before facing a Parkinson's diagnosis at 28 ...

Stop the Spread. Injecting saline into mouse kidneys did not affect the left or right substantia nigra (top). Injecting fibrils of α-synuclein ablated about half of the dopaminergic neurons (middle ...

Parkinson’s results from the death of key neurons in the substantia nigra region of the brain that ... The patients were “young” in their disease, meaning they had been diagnosed only ...

“Studies have shown that most people with Parkinson’s disease have lost 60-80% or more of the dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra by the time symptoms appear,” says Dr ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common ... leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor symptoms in ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common ... leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor symptoms in ...

Learn how non-nicotine and non-caffeine compounds in tobacco and coffee may shield the brain from Parkinson's ... disease characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia ...