April 11, 2018, is World Parkinson’s Day. It is also the birthday of James Parkinson (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824), who is credited with being the first doctor to identify […]
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When I attended the World Parkinson Congress in Portland (Sept, 2016), I heard many impressive presentations and met dozens of Parkinson Superstars. But the most amazing speech was given by
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In the fictional world many of us try to live in for much of our lives, Valentine’s Day means flowers and valentine cards and boxes of chocolates – all lovely
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Last week I posted a review of Chapter 2 of Norman Doidge’s book, The Brain’s Way of Healing. The chapter was titled “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms: How Exercise Helps
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A psychiatrist recently suggested I read Chapter 2 of The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontier of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge, MD. Chapter 2 is
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The folks at the online, for-profit Drugwatch (“Our Mission: Keep people safe from potentially harmful drugs, medical devices and procedures by informing them of medical conditions, severe side effects and ways
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Every year my school’s Korean language and culture program, which I coordinate, holds a sijo-writing contest for its 2nd and 3rd Grade students. We define sijo (pronounced “she–jo”) as a three-line poem that
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Here’s an update on ping pong’s potential for helping people with Parkinson’s disease. (To read my earlier ping pong posts, just click: click! click! click! click! click! click! click!) CBSN just aired
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After I posted yesterday about the revival of the 1937 play “Golden Boy,” one of the people involved with the project (and with the organization which is sponsoring it, stoPD),
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The local NPR radio station in New York, WNYC, just interviewed three people involved in a revival of Clifford Odet’s 1937 play, “Golden Boy.” The play focuses on a young
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