Planet Researcher to Planet Patient
This is Mariëtte Robijn: She’s really ‘leuk’ (Dutch for nice). Diagnosed at 46 with Parkinson’s, Mariëtte keeps a great blog that touches on many areas of life, including boxing. But it also provides...
View ArticleDUBstop: Oxford-style
This week multiple research groups at the University of Oxford and Boston-based FORMA Therapeutics announced a collaboration to identify, validate and develop deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) inhibitors...
View ArticleA vaccine for Parkinson’s – the AFFiRiS update
This week Austrian biotech firm, AFFiRiS AG, made an announcement regarding their experimental immunotherapy/’vaccine’ approach for Parkinson’s. In their press release, the company provided the results...
View ArticleMonitoring Parkinson’s: Let’s just sleep on it
Regular readers will be aware that here at the SoPD, we are on a mission to change the way we clinically test drugs (Click here for the most recent rant on this topic). We have a lot of interesting...
View ArticleThe Science of Constipation
It is one of the most frequent non-motor features of Parkinson’s and yet it is one of the least publicly discussed. The word ‘constipation’ is generally used to describe bowel movements that are...
View ArticleMonthly Research Review – December 2018
At the end of each month the SoPD writes a post which provides an overview of some of the major pieces of Parkinson’s-related research that were made available during December2018. The post is...
View Article2018: Year in review
In this end-of-year post we review the year that was 2018. Month-by-month we will briefly discuss some of the major pieces of research/announcement that have define the year and advanced our...
View ArticleThe road ahead: Parkinson’s research in 2019
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable” This quote has been attributed to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Click here for the full story of...
View ArticleInterfering with interferons
New data from researchers in Taiwan has intriguing implications for our understanding of the development of Parkinson’s. An analysis of the enormous national medical database pointed towards towards...
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Can shaking hands fix shaking hands?
# # # # Novel treatments for Parkinson’s are being proposed on a regular basis, and I really like the way many are based on some pretty left field ideas (light buckets, I’m thinking of you here)....
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