Blue light therapy delivered through Chrono Eyewear’s Propeaq glasses may help people with Parkinson’s disease sleep better and feel less sleepy during the day, a small study shows. After two weeks, those using blue light glasses reported greater improvements in sleep quality and daytime alertness, as well as…
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Gain Therapeutics’ oral therapy candidate rexaceract, formerly called GT-02287, stabilized motor symptoms in a small group of people with Parkinson’s disease who were treated for one year. That’s according to new data from an open-label extension of an early clinical trial, which showed no meaningful progression of Parkinson’s…
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I was very lucky to have a relationship with a truly remarkable neurologist for more than 12 years. I started seeing her right after I was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease. The first time I met her, she told me, “You’re too young; you have too much to do.
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People with Parkinson’s disease with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) showed a broader pattern of motor, psychiatric, and daily-function problems than those with insomnia or sleep apnea, according to a large database study. RBD was particularly strongly associated with slowed movement, or bradykinesia, and hallucinations, as well as difficulties…
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Eight weeks of exercises designed to strengthen the arms and hands while muscles lengthen reduced tremor and improved grip strength and hand function in people with Parkinson’s disease, the results of a small randomized clinical trial show. The benefits were seen…
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Fifteen years have passed since my husband, Eli, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He first noticed his cramped handwriting had become illegible, but after that, he didn’t experience much change for a long time. With each passing year, however, additional symptoms cropped up. Now he is compromised in almost…
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