A team of Parkinson’s experts is recruiting for a new clinical trial in partnership with researchers from across the country. The goal of the study is to help people with Parkinson’s disease or other types of parkinsonism maintain their independence by reducing the risk of hip fractures. Continue reading for a summary of the study and to see if you, or someone you know, are eligible to participate.
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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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More important to maintain exercise than to be active before disease starts, study shows
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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.”
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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