Advanced Therapy for Parkinson's Disease

Device Assisted Technologies for the Advanced Therapy of PD

We talked a bit about the medications for Parkinson’s disease and how effective they are. Patients often say to me “Will...

Neurodegenerative Disease - Causes - Genes

Neurodegenerative Disease – Genes

Probably the most common question I get asked by support groups and people in general is “Is this disease of mine...

Treatment for Atypical Parkinson's Disease

Treatment for Atypical Parkinson’s Disease

Our treatment for atypical Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Multiple System Atrophy, Corticobasal Syndrome, Vascular Parkinsonism is much harder. In these...

Dopamine Agonist

Dopamine Agonists

One of our strategies for treating Parkinson’s disease is to trick the brain by giving patients a dopamine agonist, and dopamine...

dopamine-catechol-inhibitors

COMT Inhibitors for the Treatment of Parkinson’s

In more advanced cases of PD, what we’d really like is for the dopamine to hang around for a bit longer,...

dopamine-inhibitors

MAOB Inhibitors for the Treatment of Parkinson’s

One of the other strategies that we have that can treat Parkinson’s disease is to allow the dopamine that’s in the...

Immune System and Cell Death

The Immune System and Cell Death

One of the things we see in degenerative diseases of the brain is the idea of inflammation or the immune system...

Proteins, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Dementia

The Role of Proteins in Brain Disease

We know that most of the diseases of the brain that we’re seeing that are degenerative, seem to be associated with...

The Research Clinic

All of the work I conduct relies on the good will of patients participating in the clinic. Here we can collect...

Genetics and Biomarkers Research

Understanding many of the degenerative diseases of the brain has led people to look at genetics and biomarkers. Where genes go...