Parkinson's Disease
Roger Barker: Beyond the “Breakthrough”
“I don’t think we need a cure,” neuroscientist Roger Barker said. “If you can slow it down by 50 percent and pick people up early on, you’ve probably done it.”
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Editor’s Note: Why We’re Building The Initiative
How we accidentally became the founders of a Magazine.
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Malú Gámez Tansey: This is the Beginning of the End
Parkinson’s disease has long been understood through dying neurons and misfolded alpha-synuclein. Neuroscientist Malú Gámez Tansey believes chronic inflammation may be one of the central forces driving the disease.
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Alpha-Synuclein on Trial
At the World Parkinson Congress in Phoenix, two leading neuroscientists staged a “courtroom battle” over one of medicine’s most consequential questions: what actually drives Parkinson’s disease?
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Inside WPC2026: The Changing Future of Parkinson’s Disease
At the opening of the World Parkinson Congress 2026, the mood inside the convention halls felt split between optimism and realism.
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Jimmy Choi at WPC2026: Why Exercise Has Become the Field’s Most Urgent Medicine
Despite decades of research and billions invested, scientists still cannot stop Parkinson’s disease. For now, says endurance athlete and Parkinson’s advocate Jimmy Choi, the most effective intervention available may be something far less futuristic than many has hoped for: Exercise.
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The Architecture of a Craving: How Experience Rewires the Dopamine System
A single dose of cocaine or a single painful event doesn't just pass through the brain; it leaves a physical scar. Excitatory synapses are strengthened for weeks, but in entirely different neighborhoods of the mind.
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Parkinson's and Sleep Apnea Fuel Each Other
Parkinson's disease and obstructive sleep apnea are locked in a devastating feedback loop, where each condition exacerbates the other through shared molecular pathways, creating a complex clinical challenge that current, siloed treatments fail to address.
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A Bacterium, a Disease, and the Temptation to Say ‘Cause’
Desulfovibrio is the kind of microbe most people have never heard of, yet it showed up more often and in higher amounts in the sickest among Parkinson’s patients. The temptation is obvious: if a suspicious bacterium tracks disease severity, maybe it helps cause the disease.
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Why Parkinson's is Much More than the 'Tremor of the Hand'
An analysis of over 800 brains reveals that the disease bypasses specific motor regions, attacking a newly discovered master network for whole-body coordination.
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Anders M. Leines: After the Image Changed
For more than a decade, Anders M. Leines has documented Parkinson’s from the inside. First, he wanted to change how the disease was seen. Ten years later, he returned to the same people, and found a darker story about time and identity.