A psychiatrist recently suggested I read Chapter 2 of The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontier of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge, MD. Chapter 2 is […]
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Here’s a great, recent video that addresses the question, “Where are we now with Parkinson’s research?” The author/speaker, Simon Stott, is a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University, where he focuses
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After I posted yesterday about the revival of the 1937 play “Golden Boy,” one of the people involved with the project (and with the organization which is sponsoring it, stoPD),
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This morning, Jane Pauley interviewed Michael J. Fox on the TV show “CBS Sunday Morning.” It’s always amazing to hear Michael speak, and in this interview he is straightforward and
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Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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There’s been a bunch of articles recently about average Jane or Joe Parkies taking charge of their lives and speaking out. Shall we review a few? 1. Mike Wood Lifts
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The online Time magazine has a great article on Margaret Bourke-White, the famous Life magazine photographer who developed Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and fought it tooth and nail so she could
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Yesterday was the Parkinson’s Unity Walk in New York’s Central Park. The photo above shows the starting gate, where I was supposed to meet some friends from Europe (Andy Butler
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Yesterday’s CBC News (in Canada) reported on Robyn Levy, a young woman with Parkinson’s who fights back through exercise and art. (She was also a fellow official blogger of the last
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I recently received the following message from Benjamin Stecher in my blog’s in-box: Hey, fellow PD advocate and blogger here, Below is a link to my latest blog entry about the
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