A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly ...

Parkinson’s disease currently affects nearly one million Americans with no specific known cause and no cure. Treatments have come a long way over the past few decades focusing on managing symptoms and ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a ...

Rachel Reid, the author of Heated Rivalry, now a Crave TV sensation, has shared a hopeful update regarding her Parkinson’s ...

A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how scientists think about Parkinson's disease treatments.

Explore dopamine's role in movement and how it challenges long-standing theories about motor control and Parkinson's disease treatments.

An estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), making it the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. “Parkinson’s is a disease in which neurons ...

Hope is preparing for close-out meetings with the FDA. Chang said the team is “hopeful to advance to a phase 3 confirmatory trial” of the stem cell therapy candidate.

Results of a recent study strongly suggest simply getting more B vitamins in your diet could be a completely painless way of ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...

"That could change things for me because I'm not really getting the treatment that I should be getting," Rachel Reid ...

Recent scientific discoveries are challenging traditional views of Parkinson’s disease, suggesting that this neurological condition might actually begin in an unexpected place, the digestive system.