Can We Cure It All?
A lot of medications that we have heard of today that are designed to make diseases more livable don’t actually treat the source of the problem. More often than...
Tag: Parkinson’s disease
The Imbalance of Parkinson's Disease
Commonly seen in people over the age of forty, approximately 60,000 United States citizens are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease every year. The magnitud...
The Parkinson's Brain
This week in Neurochemistry class, we talked about one of the many mysterious neurodegenerative disorders; Parkinson’s Disease. I like to think of the brain as ...
A Promising Outlook to a Devastating Disease: Lewy Body Dementia
What is Lewy Body Dementia? Lewy body dementia is characterized by abnormal protein deposits that aggregate in the brain. When Lewy body proteins aggregate, th...
Synaptic Pruning, Not The work of Hedge Trimmers
I can honestly say that I have very little pruning experience myself, less a few trees in the back yard. When I see a perfectly trimmed tree, bush, or shrub I o...
The abandoned area of drug development—Parkinson’s Disease
It seems as though every time I turn on the TV there are commercials for new types of medication. Unfortunately, for some devastating conditions there haven’t b...
Oh NO! Nitric Oxide and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Nitric Oxide is a free radical produced by glial cells in the brain as an immune response to infection. It falls into the category of reactive nitrogen species ...
Should Parkinson's Be a Priority?
Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects both motor and non-motor systems in the body, which is characterized by the death of neurons in ...
Parkinson's Not Just a Tremor
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s effecting about 3 in 1000 people in industrialized nations. It seems t...
Parkinson's: A Disease or a Syndrome?
One of the most important themes I’ve gathered from my time in my neurochemistry class is the theme of ambiguity when trying to determine the cause of a neurode...