Announcing the first ever International Table Tennis Federation Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championship! Where: Westchester Table Tennis Center, 175 Tompkins Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570, United States of America (about 1 […]
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Positive Deviance with an Enriched Environment Last week I reviewed research that showed that rats and mice raised in an “enriched environment” and then infected with a chemical that gave
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At the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics swim competition last month, I told the timer at my lane that my arms might flail around when I got up on the
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ParkingSuns.com is still on Spring Break, mainly because I’m so busy, even on weekends. For instance, a few weekends ago I competed at a big swim meet in New York
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Here I am standing on the stage in the breakfast room at Teachers College Columbia University. Professor Jo Anne Kleifgen, my doctoral dissertation adviser from the 1990s, is reading a
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A few years ago, the Parkinson’s Foundation published an online article titled “Improving Brain Function with Exercise, Connectedness and Creativity.” (But it’s no longer on their website…oh-oh…oh, well.) I pasted
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
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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Bottom line first: For many Parkies, sleep problems worsen over time. Yes, we already knew this first hand. But some recent research, which followed 218 newly-diagnosed Parkies for five years and
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