November 1, 2016

Excerpted from Peak Fitness, presented by Mercola.com and The Seventy Percent Solution. Neuromuscular and neurodegenerative illnesses are devastating for obvious reasons: loss of independence, reduced...

October 1, 2016

July 31, 2016

Imagine if all you had to do to unlock a better way to learn was sprinkle a delicious topping onto your food? A team...

February 29, 2016

What Are Lewy Bodies? – Lewy bodies (LBs) are spherical masses of aggregated protein that disrupt the normal function of the brain. In 1912,...

February 29, 2016

While the cure is not yet here for Parkinson’s disease, neuroscientists are excited about research that appears to arrest and/or begin to reverse many...

January 30, 2016

Generation of Parkinson’s-Like Transgenic Animals for Pharmacodynamics Study – Last month ICBI scientists reported that they’ve generated an adequate quantity of their Parkinson’s drug to...

December 31, 2015

Got milk? Well, according to one study (midlife milk consumption and substantia nigra neuron density at death), that could put you at a higher risk...

December 31, 2015

It can be a labor of love, and sometimes a job of necessity. A total of about 43 million U.S. adults provide unpaid care...

November 29, 2015

When Jo Rosen, the President and CEO of Parkinson’s Resource Organization (PRO),  told me this month marks her 25th year with PRO, I wanted...

November 1, 2015

We have been telling you for the last 2–3 years that a La Jolla based biotech Company, ICB International, Inc., (ICBI), has developed a...

September 30, 2015

SO WHAT DOES IT COST TO DEVELOP NEW PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG AND WHAT’S IMPORTANT? The steep rise in costs comes despite an intense effort…. helps the public...

September 5, 2015

Parkinson’s disease is characterized by a deterioration of motor functions, which are often visible as tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement and/or postural instability. Tremors...

July 29, 2015

About 98% of all drugs cannot reach the brain…Some drugs that do reach the brain only “treat symptoms” for a short while. You need not...

July 29, 2015

From the Neurology Advisor SAN DIEGO — Inhaled levodopa (CVT-301) can reduce the amount of “off” time per day for patients with Parkinson’s on an oral...

July 2, 2015

To date, there are no diagnostic tests for Parkinson’s disease (PD). The presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) has impeded the development of non-invasive...