Dr. Peter Tass, a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford, has been developing a vibrating glove treatment for Parkinson’s Disease for decades. A local TV station recently talked to Dr. Tass about his research.
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The Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach Program has added a new webpage with resources for Veterans with Parkinson’s Diesease and their care partners to help understand the relationship between military exposures and Parkinson’s disease, clinical care for Parkinson’s disease at the VA, how to apply for benefits or get help doing so, and more.
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This is a terrific review of a bunch of Parkinson’s-related research. One Danish study found that “people with PD were 1.73 times likelier than controls to have been infected with influenza at least a decade prior.” And two studies “reinforce[d] a tried-and-true method of staving” off PD – exercise.
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In this recent Movement Disorder Society hour-long podcast, well-known movement disorder specialist Dr. Stanley Fahn discusses the “most impactful paper” in movement disorders in the 20th century: the 1967 research article by George Kotzias, et al, about levodopa therapy. Dr. Fahn addresses the origins of levodopa therapy for PD in the 1960s and how that generated an explosion of interest and research in dopamine’s role in movement disorders.
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On June 17, 2018, Kanwarjit Bhutani stepped out of an elevator with his wife, unaware his life was about to change. A woman followed the couple from the elevator to the door of their condominium in New York City. Out of the blue, she recommended that Bhutani see Stanford Medicine researcher Peter Tass, MD, PhD, about his promising treatment for Parkinson’s — a vibrating glove.
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