Parkinson's disease is not a natural consequence of aging; it is an unnatural one, maintain neurologists Ray Dorsey, MD, of Atria Health and Research Institute in New York City, and Michael Okun, MD, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio and its surrounding states are among U.S. states with the highest rates of deaths from Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological movement disorder. Ohio had a rate of 10.1 ...

Overactivation of dopamine neurons may directly drive their death, explaining why movement-controlling brain cells degenerate in Parkinson’s. Mice with chronically stimulated neurons showed the same ...

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. The “Shaking Palsy.” Those ...

Many people think of a tremor as the quintessential warning sign of Parkinson’s disease. But other symptoms — many of them not involving changes in movement — can appear much earlier than what’s known ...

Analysis of microbes in the gut can reveal whether a person faces an elevated risk of Parkinson's disease, before they have ...