Our February meeting is next Wednesday. This is one of those meetings that give truth to our group name – support group. Rather than have a speaker come , we share our experiences and knowledge with each other in mutual support . What is the subject this month? When its group only, I usually pick a starter […]
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Dear Fellow Members…Thanks for the Support
What I really enjoy about our group is that it truly is a “support ” group ready to share knowledge, information, ideas and tricks they’ve learned along the way with each other. its easy, over time, to become more of a speakers’ bureau but when ours leaned a bit too far in that direction, members […]
Inosine, Rytary, Alpha-synuclein…Oh, My!
If you aren’t familiar with the subjects listed in the title, you must have missed the September meeting. Look at all you missed! It was wonderful to be back together. We had a full agenda, including a visit by neurologist Drew Falconer, MD. Dr. Falconer and his partner, Sean Rogers, MD, along with […]
News You Can Use from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Progress is being made in Preventing toxic protein clumps. Alpha-synuclein is the sticky protein that clumps in brain cells in Parkinson’s, and scientists believe that those clumps (called Lewy bodies) are toxic and lead to cell death. Because Lewy bodies likely play a primary role in disease progression and are seen in the brains of […]
FDA Approves New Deep Brain Stimulation Device
From the FoxFeed Blog , FDA Approves New Deep Brain Stimulation Device Posted by Maggie McGuire, June 16, 2015 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday that it had approved another deep brain stimulation (DBS) device for treatment of Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The Brio Neurostimulation System from St. Jude Medical works in […]