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Local TV News Story About Stanford’s Peter Tass, MD, Developing a Non-Invasive Treatment for PD

May 13, 2022 By Parkinson's Community Help

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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Parkinson’s Progression Slower With Sustained Physical Activity

January 18, 2022 By Parkinson's Community Help

More important to maintain exercise than to be active before disease starts, study shows

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Onset of Skin, Gut, and Genitourinary Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease: A Study of 1.5 Million Veterans

October 4, 2021 By Parkinson's Community Help


This interesting new research of 300,000 people with PD and 1.2 million matched controls explored prodromal Parkinson’s disease by studying the skin, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal issues reported.  The researchers say that studying these systems “offers a unique window for understanding early disease pathogenesis and developing disease modifying treatments.” 

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Stanford Movement Disorders Center seeking study participants with PD, without dementia, and with delusions or hallucinations

August 30, 2021 By Parkinson's Community Help

The Movement Disorders Center is seeking participants with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who do not have dementia and who do have either delusions (false or mistaken beliefs) and/or hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not really there) to study an investigational drug.  This study is being conducted to see if the investigational drug might improve the activities of daily living in PD patients.  Participants must have a relative, housemate, or friend assist during the study. 

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Research Summary: Basket Trials and Neurodegenerative Disease

December 5, 2019 By Lauren Stroshane

A recent drug trial by the UCSF Memory and Aging Center is the first of its kind for neurodegenerative disorders and represents an exciting new method for evaluating the effectiveness of a single drug on participants with the same underlying biology, but different diagnoses. First used in cancer research, basket trials lump together patients by disease pathology, not by diagnosis or symptoms. The UCSF trial evaluated the effectiveness of a drug, TPI-287, in treating toxic buildup of tau protein in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AZ), corticobasal syndrome (CBS), and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). While the drug ultimately did not show promise, scientists still drew useful takeaways from the study, and future studies of neurodegenerative disease may benefit from utilizing a basket trial design.

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