In July 2024, Parkinson Canada hosted a webinar on stress and Parkinson’s disease. The webinar featured guest speakers Kim Mortson and Dr. Rick Helmich. Kim was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2018 and spoke about her experience managing stress and practicing gratitude. Dr. Helmich, a movement disorder specialist in the Netherlands, focused on the effects of stress on Parkinson’s. The speakers offered practical advice for managing stress.
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Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of Parkinson’s-related webinars and virtual meetings with speakers. Here’s our August 2024 list.
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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 Agosto de 2024.
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Stanford Neurology, in collaboration with SRI, is looking for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy volunteers, between the ages of 50 and 80. The goal of this research is to learn more about changes in cognition and motor function with aging.
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Excerpt: Over the past few decades, dance has been used as a rehabilitation tool for people with neurological disorders, tying into a long history of dance as a healing practice. (“Dance as therapy has probably existed for as long as dance has existed,” Harrison said.) Participants in programs like Mark Morris Dance Center’s Dance for PD — which for more than 20 years has offered specialized classes for people with Parkinson’s disease — found them to be effective before science could fully explain why they worked. But dance neuroscience studies are beginning to reveal the neural mechanisms behind dance’s positive impact on motor function, cognition and mental well-being in people with a variety of neurological conditions. “Dance is joyful and mindful for everyone,” said Julia C. Basso, one of the creators of and performers in “Epiphany Machine” and the director of Virginia Tech’s Embodied Brain Laboratory. But for those whose brains are having difficulty communicating with their bodies, “it’s especially powerful.” (The full article is behind the NYT paywall.)
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