If dementia develops a year or more after Parkinson’s disease symptoms begin, doctors diagnose Parkinson’s disease dementia. Both conditions share many features, including rigid muscles and ...

T here is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain ...

Nonmotor symptoms may appear during the course of Parkinson's disease, complicating the advanced phase in particular, but are also common in the premotor phase of Parkinson's disease. The ...

The FDA has approved an adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) treatment for people with with Parkinson’s disease, making this groundbreaking technology available to people nationwide.

They can have similar symptoms and they may occur together ... Another condition, Lewy body disease, often described as Parkinson plus or parkinsonism, is characterized by some of the movement ...

Scientists have identified a rare genetic mutation in ITSN1 that increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease by up to tenfold, ...

The study, published Tuesday in The Lancet, is bad news for the half million Americans who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Symptoms include tremors, stiffness and difficulty with ...

A new study published in Cell Reports reveals a breakthrough discovery linking genetic variants in the gene ITSN1 to a significantly elevated risk of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative condition ...

People with Parkinson's disease are more likely to develop certain types of dementia. Find out about the causes, symptoms and treatments. Parkinson’s disease is a brain disease that affects around 145 ...