Brent Bluett, DO, Stanford Movement Disorder Specialist, will discuss “The Latest Parkinson’s Research: Is There Hope?” at the Palo Alto Support group on Wednesday, January 8, from 2:30-4:00pm, at Channing House in Palo Alto. No RSVP is required to attend.
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The Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach team would like to wish you and your family warm and happy holidays! The office is closed until Monday, January 6th.
The Parkinson and Movement Disorder (PMD) Alliance hosted a webinar on the “Naturopathic Approach to PD” by speaker Dr. Laurie Mischley, a naturopathic doctor who has done extensive research into nutrient deficiencies found in Parkinson’s disease (PD). She spoke about naturopathic medicine, essential nutrients in PD, and other types of deficiencies that patients should also try to address, such as sleep and social interaction. We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to the webinar and are sharing our notes.
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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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Excerpt: “Now, Dr. [Christian R.] Baumann warns all patients with stimulators never to go into deep water alone. … How the devices could interfere with swimming is not known. Dr. Baumann and his colleagues suggested that in some patients the signals may somehow affect a brain region that is crucial for coordinating limb movement. He said other complicated, learned skills might also be affected: Some patients said they could no longer ski after receiving stimulators, and one said he could not play golf anymore.”
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