#parkinsons — Public Fediverse posts
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So...Your Friend Has Parkinson's | Michael J. Fox & Harrison Ford
The advice is actually good for many types of sudden diagnoses and your relationships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbtEFkgqew0 #Disability #Parkinsons
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An observational study of the frequency of Parkinson's disease in about 19 million U.S. residents 67 or older, relative to their residence's distance to a dry cleaner's, found a dose-response relationship, with an approximately 20% higher risk of disease for those living closest.
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-026-01513-6
#Science #Health #Parkinsons #DryCleaners #Pollution #Trichloroethylene #TCE
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Scientists Thought #Parkinsons Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the #Water
New ideas about #ChronicIllness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
By David Ferry, December 10, 2025
Excerpt: "Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of #trichlorethylene, or #TCE, had entered the groundwater beneath #CampLejeune. TCE is a highly effective solvent—one of those midcentury wonder chemicals—that vaporizes quickly and dissolves whatever grease it touches. The spill’s source is debated, but grunts on base used TCE to maintain machinery, and the dry cleaner sprayed it on dress blues. It was ubiquitous at Lejeune and all over America.
"And TCE appeared benign, too—you could rub it on your hands or huff its fumes and feel no immediate effects. It plays a longer game. For approximately 35 years, Marines and sailors who lived at Lejeune unknowingly breathed in vaporized TCE whenever they turned on their tap. The Navy, which oversees the Marine Corps, first denied the toxic plume’s existence, then refused to admit it could affect Marines’ health. But as Lejeune’s vets aged, cancers and unexplained illness began stalking them at staggering rates. Marines stationed on base had a 35 percent higher risk of developing kidney cancer, a 47 percent higher risk of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a 68 percent higher risk of multiple myeloma. At the local cemetery, the section reserved for infants had to be expanded.
"Meanwhile, Langston had spent the remainder of the 1980s setting up the California Parkinson’s Foundation (later renamed the Parkinson’s Institute), a lab and treatment facility equipped with everything needed to finally reveal the cause of the disease. 'We thought we were going to solve it,' Langston told me. Researchers affiliated with the institute created the first animal model for Parkinson’s, identified a pesticide called #Paraquat as a near chemical match to #MPTP, and proved that farm workers who sprayed Paraquat developed Parkinson’s at exceedingly high rates.
"Then they showed that identical twins developed Parkinson’s at the same rate as fraternal twins—something that wouldn’t make sense if the disease were purely genetic, since identical twins share DNA and fraternal twins do not. They even noted TCE as a potential cause of the disease, Langston says. Each revelation, the team thought, represented another nail in the coffin of the genetic theory of Parkinson’s."
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/w8kFq#TCE #Solvents #DryCleaningFluid #Toxins #ToxicContamination #ParkinsonsDisease #WaterIsLife #WaterContamination
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DATE: July 28, 2025 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTechDirect article link at end of text block below.
.@CMSGov revisits coverage criteria for #Parkinsons, #essentialtremor
#medtech #reimbursement @AdvaMedUpdate
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DATE: March 06, 2025 at 07:00AM
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.@onwdempowered exploring #spinalcord stimulation system to treat #Parkinsons
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@DoomsdaysCW Now, UI devs need to work on some of their elements that affect movement disorders.
A lot of websites are using features that if you click outside a popup, like for searching or filling out a form, the popup closes. A simple way to turn that off and provide an X or close button would do wonders. I love that Mastodon at least buffers that somewhat, esp if you are writing a post and accidently click which would lead you away from what you are working on
It's not just for people with the most widely known form of #MovementDisorders, like #Parkinsons, but all people as they age get tremors, dystonia, and ataxia, some just an annoyance, but others significant, as their damaged nervous system breaks down communication with their brains through the simple act of aging and lifestyle choices. #a11y .
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DATE: August 23, 2024 at 07:00AM
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FDA approves Medtronic Asleep DBS surgery, expanded MRI labeling
#medtech @Medtronic #DBS #parkinsons #essentialtremor
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DATE: August 22, 2024 at 04:59PM
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FDA approves Medtronic Asleep DBS surgery, expanded MRI labeling
#medtech @Medtronic #DBS #parkinsons #essentialtremor
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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Reconnects With Sister After 20 Yearshttps://blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-reconnects-with-sister-after-20-years
#DaveMustaine #SiblingsDay #NationalSiblingsDay #Parkinsons #dementia #reconnect #MEGADETH #JehovahsWitness #family #love #spiritfree #abuse #alcoholism #lostsister
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In the latest episode of The Parkinson's Research Podcast, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha to talk about her work with the Women's Brain Project and the importance of considering sex and gender factors in Parkinson's disease research, policy, and healthcare.
Click here to listen:
https://www.michaeljfox.org/podcast/episode-11-importance-sex-and-gender-factors-neurodegenerative-disease-research-and-care#parkinsons #parkinsonsdisease #neuroscience #research #science #neurology #movementdisorders #podcast #podcasts #scicomm #sciencecommunication
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Dr. Huw Morris has spent more than twenty five years researching Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes, and he shares highlights from recent work in this podcast episode, including studies on the genetics and pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease and other parkinsonian syndromes.
#parkinsonsdisease #parkinsons #movementdisorders #genetics #neurology #neuroscience #research #science
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I'm honored to be partnering with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to discuss the latest advances and discoveries in neuroscience with experts as the host of this new research-focused podcast! Two new episodes are out!
https://www.michaeljfox.org/research-podcast
#neuroscience #neuro #neurology #parkinsons #ParkinsonsDisease #PD #MovementDisorders #research #science #innovation #scicomm #podcast #podcasts
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review article from 2022:
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2021.07.009"The most common allergen in fish, the highly abundant protein β-parvalbumin (PV), forms amyloids that escape gastrointestinal degradation and transit to the blood [34,35]. PV is a small, calcium-binding protein with a helical structure that transforms to amyloids on calcium removal. Because fish is generally considered beneficial toward age-related diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, we speculated that an explanation would be cross-reactivity of PV amyloids with human amyloidogenic proteins [36∗∗]. Indeed, in vitro experiments showed that PV amyloids readily blocked aS amyloid formation. "
"In addition to fish, other food products contain protein amyloids that are not fully digested in the gut: for example, whey and casein proteins (milk), ovalbumin, lysozyme and ovotransferrin (egg), bovine serum albumin and hemoglobin (blood), and glutelin (wheat) [20]."
The 'Conclusions and outlook' section is very much worth reading, but a bit too long to cut and paste.
#Parkinsons #neurodegeneration #Food #FoodScience #health #GutBrainAxis #GutMicrobiome
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I believe I should introduce myself: I'm a Doctor of #PhysicalTherapy and a PhD Student at #UniversityofWashington. My area of interest and research focus is in understanding #vestibular function in people with Parkinson disease.
My other research interests include the role of dopamine in the vestibular system, efferent vestibular function, and sensory processing for human postural control.
#PD #parkinsons #parkinsonsdisease #scicomm #balance #fallprevention #movementdisorders #sensory