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parkinson’s disease
Israeli startup aims for test to detect Parkinson’s
Jewish Journal
November 30, 2016
Doctors diagnose as many as 60,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States every year.
Mind over matter: Treating Parkinson’s through martial arts
Jewish Journal
November 18, 2015
Many Israelis are hard at work looking into the causes of Parkinson’s disease, new treatments to relieve symptoms and technologies to manage the disease.
Swinging with The 5th Dementia
Jewish Journal
November 25, 2014
Twice a week, four older men get together to make music. There may be nothing unusual about that, but aging has not been kind to them: To varying degrees, they’ve been affected by dementia or Parkinson’s disease.\n
Jewish movement disorders and genetics
Jewish Journal
October 21, 2014
As I was sitting (and standing) in a synagogue over the holidays I let my mind wander, as I often do under similar circumstances, and tried to answer the eternal question: If God designated the Jews as the “Chosen People” why did he/she also referred to them as the “stiff-necked people”?
Robin Williams was sober, had Parkinson’s at death
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
Robin Williams was sober and suffering from early stages of Parkinson\’s disease as well as anxiety and depression at the time of his apparent suicide, the actor\’s wife said in a statement on Thursday.
Is there a link between Parkinson’s and Ashkenazi Jews?
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2014
It’s no secret that harmful mutations to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which increase a woman’s chances of getting breast cancer, are more common among those of Ashkenazic descent. Now researchers are investigating another gene mutation with links to Jews descending from Eastern Europe, this time related to Parkinson’s disease.
Writing can diagnose Parkinson’s
Jewish Journal
October 30, 2013
A new Israeli study comparing the handwriting of healthy people to those with Parkinson’s disease holds out the promise of providing a simple diagnostic tool at the earliest stages of the progressive disorder caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain’s muscle-movement control areas.
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