Do you know how Parkinson’s disease clinical trials work? Oh, really? Test yourself with this handy, informative quiz. The answers are as enlightening as a parking sun. BTW, thank you for […]
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Former Massachusetts first lady Ann Romney and friends have kicked off a new website where people with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease and other neurological disorders can post their
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Every night when I sleep on my stomach, my husband points out the drool stains on the bed sheet the next morning. If someone will pay my airfare to California,
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If you glance at my physical workout calendar, you’ll see that I often do 60 minutes of stretching exercises at home. These include some yoga balancing poses, especially the Standing
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I sometimes publish a “major” post about Parkinson’s disease, and then follow it with a 2nd post of jokes on the same topic. For example, I wrote about constipation, and
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I just attended the 60th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association at Columbia University, where the first plenary speaker, Ellen Bialystock, gave a talk titled, “Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind
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1. This is what I think comes to many people’s mind when they hear that someone has Parkinson’s disease. They envision an elderly person, cloaked in stuffy clothes, confined to a
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Any way you look at it (here, here, and, um, here…), coffee seems to be a good thing for people with Parkinson’s disease, and for people who don’t have Parkinson’s
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Smithsonian.com reports that MIT researchers believe the way you press the keys when you type might be a predictor of Parkinson’s disease. The issue is not how many words you
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As a teacher trainer in a charter school which uses a particular pedagogy, I find my Parkinson’s poker face pays off. Below are two YouTube clips which show what I
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