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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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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The NY Times reported this week on a research study which found that high-intensity treadmill training slowed the progression of Parkinson’s disease in Parkies who were “newly diagnosed” (that is,
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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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It’s a gorgeous fall weekend, and my husband and I are going to climb Mt. Beacon, one hour north of us on the Hudson River. There’s room in my backpack
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Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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Parkinson’s Sonnet, Year 7 Why am I so tired all the time? I go to bed and get my nightly eight, But all that sleep does not facilitate My feeling
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This is Breakneck Ridge, and last weekend my husband and I climbed it. It’s right on the Hudson River, about 40 minutes upstream from our house, and it’s popular with
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This past weekend I swam a 2.5 kilometer (1.5 mile) open water race in Lake George, New York, to raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
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