In December 2025, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) hosted a panel discussion on stress and Parkinson’s disease (PD). The panel tackled how stress affects Parkinson’s symptoms and why stress happens. They explained the difference between acute stress (normal and temporary) and chronic stress (which causes real problems), and walked through the brain mechanisms that make symptoms worse when someone is stressed. Read our notes.
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Each year, around 90,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disease that can cause tremors and affect cognition. Scientists are working to identify some of the earliest signs of the disease, and to figure out how we might test for—and treat—Parkinson’s in the future.
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En diciembre de 2025, PMD Alliance organizó una conversación en vivo en español con el Dr. Ray Dorsey, neurólogo especialista en trastornos del movimiento y director del Centro para el Cerebro y el Medio Ambiente.
El Dr. Dorsey, autor de los libros “Ending Parkinson’s Disease” y “The Parkinson’s Plan”, compartió información crucial sobre cómo las sustancias químicas en nuestro entorno contribuyen al aumento de casos de Parkinson y, lo más importante, qué podemos hacer al respecto.
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World-renowned Parkinson’s disease expert Dr. Ray Dorsey is on a national book tour, sharing the science, stories, and urgency behind “The Parkinson’s Plan,” his new bestseller. Luckily, we have lined him up for two events on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 in our local area — Belmont Library (10:10am) and Little House in Menlo Park (2:30pm). Dr. Dorsey will detail some of the 25 steps necessary to lower your risk of developing Parkinson’s and, if you have PD, slowing decline. He will be in conversation with Stanford’s APDA Information & Referral Center Coordinator Robin Riddle. Read more about Dr. Dorsey’s talk and join us!
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On January 10, 2026, Stanford Medicine hosted a seminar on “Gut-Brain & Parkinson’s Disease”, exploring how the gastrointestinal tract may hold the key to both the origin and early detection of the disease. This seminar shared the latest between bioengineering and clinical neurology, presenting a compelling case for the “Body-First” hypothesis—the idea that Parkinson’s pathology may begin in the gut due to environmental triggers before reaching the brain. The featured Stanford speakers in different fields included movement disorder neurologists Dr. Kathleen Poston and Dr. Bianca Palushaj, neurogastroenterologist Dr. Leila Neshatian, and researcher Yasmine Kehnemouyi, PhD candidate, and ended with a panel moderated by bioengineer Dr. Todd Coleman. These are notes from the seminar.
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