In October 2025, the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) hosted the webinar “Unlocking Strength Within: Spirituality and Parkinson’s Disease.” The webinar featured Kim Beuerman, a board-certified spiritual care provider and staff chaplain, who shared how nurturing spiritual well-being can improve quality of life, reduce depression and anxiety, and build resilience.
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Todos los meses, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach producirá una lista de seminarios web y reuniones virtuales en español relacionados con el Parkinson con oradores. Aquí está nuestra lista de Noviembre de 2025.
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An article in the Washington Post shares four tips that may reduce your risk of developing Parkinson’s disease: drink caffeinated coffee or tea; be careful about dry-cleaning (if the cleaner uses PCE); avoid pesticides (switch to organic produce; wash your produce); and use a water filter (especially if there are golf courses in your area or if you use well water).
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The Stanford APDA (American Parkinson Disease Association) Information & Referral Center’s Connecting Through Art (CTA) program has met for the last several years in Cupertino. As of October 2025, we are partnering with PD Active to bring the program to the East Bay. This creative arts program that offers people with PD the space and ability to express feelings, emotions, and daily concerns through drawing and painting. Care partners are welcome. In even-numbered months we will meet in Berkeley and in odd-numbered months we will meet in Cupertino. Generally, we will gather on the second Saturday of each month, 10:30am-12pm, though the date may change according to the instructor’s schedule.
DBS is a technique developed in the 1980s and 1990s in which a surgeon inserts electrodes deep into areas of the brain that are affected by Parkinson’s, then connects them to a small, battery-powered device implanted in the chest that sends electrical pulses back to the brain. The stimulation helps modulate the electrical activity in the targeted brain area, reducing abnormal brain signals and, thus, symptoms. Krehbiel reached out to a neurologist who was conducting research on DBS: Helen Brontë-Stewart, a professor of neurology and neurological sciences who has spent much of her career seeking to understand, measure, and improve the brain’s control of movement in the body.
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