This past week, the New York Times published an essay titled “Living Intimately with Thoughts of Death,” written by Susan Gubar, who’s been diagnosed with cancer. Her opening sentence reads, […]
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Recently, The New Yorker ran a short story (“The Escape,” by John L’Heureux), which focuses on a character who develops Parkinson’s disease. Click here to read the actual story. Or
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I’m sitting on a fence right now. On one side of the fence is the classification “advanced Parkinson’s disease,” according to the website Parkinson’s Community. Every day in my Facebook
About a week ago, I wrote a post about my reaction to seeing a picture of a noose as part of a cognitive test for a longitudinal study of how
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I work at the two Bronx Charter Schools for Better Learning. I’m called a “Professional Development Specialist,” which means I get to train new teachers and teaching assistants in our
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This morning the TV show “CBS Sunday Morning” aired an interview with fellow Parkie extraordinaire, Linda Ronstadt. She talks about her earlier life as a singer and her present life
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Being a caregiver to someone with Parkinson’s will cost you money. Why and how much? A recent research report attempted to find out, by comparing the financial situations of 1211
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Here’s a recent video promoting my Ping Pong Parkinson’s club, which meets every Wednesday in Pleasantville, NY, and has a tournament coming up this week. The group was founded by
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According to a recent study from Turkey, female caregivers of people with Parkinson’s disease face anxiety and depression themselves, at far greater rates than male caregivers. We’re talking mostly about
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The World Parkinson Congress is accepting abstracts for poster presentations at the upcoming Congress in Kyoto (June 4-7, 2019). You can submit an abstract as a medical researcher, or as
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