Neurology residents explore Parkinson's care, research advances and career opportunities at the 2026 MDS-PAS Movement Disorders School.

There is a genetic component to Parkinson’s, with researchers estimating that about 30 percent of Parkinson’s risk is explained by genetics. Less than 10 percent of this risk has been explained by ...

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Managing Parkinson’s medications can be a complex task no matter where you or your loved one are in your journey with PD. When is it best to start or adjust medication? How much should you take? How ...

Observational studies do not test drugs or treatments. Instead, researchers examine participants’ health over a certain time period. With observational studies, researchers collect data to advance ...

Dr. Shill received her medical degree from the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She completed her internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in internal medicine. Dr. Shill ...

Kevin Webb has been a professor at Purdue University for 33 years. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) and the Institute of Electrical and ...

At the 2026 International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases (AD/PD) in Copenhagen, Denmark, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) was actively engaged on the ground, contributing to ...

New paper in The Lancet Neurology confirms that a key Parkinson’s pathology can now be identified by examining spinal fluid from living patients Test validated in the gold-standard Parkinson’s ...

On November 20, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) signed into law an economic development package that includes a provision to establish a statewide Parkinson’s disease research registry.

Before you or a loved one was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you may have only been familiar with the tremor symptom. Unfortunately, the disease brings with it a range of symptoms, some visible ...