UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER New research shows that commercially available smartphones and watches, like the Apple Watch, are able to capture key features of early, untreated Parkinson’s disease. These technologies could provide researchers with more objective and continuous ways to measure the disease and bring new treatments to market faster, particularly for patients in...
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Key brain region involved in more than locomotion, finding may improve Parkinson’s treatments
by Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.002 For decades, a key brain area called the mesencephalic locomotor region has been thought to merely regulate locomotion. Now, researchers in Silvia Arber’s group have shown that the region is involved in much more than walking, as it contains distinct populations of neurons that control...
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Brain wave recordings reveal potential for individualized Parkinson’s treatments
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Pioneering neural recordings in patients with Parkinson’s disease by UC San Francisco scientists lays the groundwork for personalized brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders. In a study published May 3rd in Nature Biotechnology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences researchers implanted novel neurostimulation devices that monitor brain activity for many...