Ping Pong Parkinson’s
Here’s a recent video promoting my Ping Pong Parkinson’s club, which meets every Wednesday in Pleasantville, NY, and has a tournament coming up this week. The group was founded by […]
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Parkinson’s Disease
Having PD Increases Your Motivation for Cognitive Control
Let’s jump to the conclusions of a recent research report titled Enhanced motivation of cognitive control in Parkinson’s disease! I’ll print the final sentence of the abstract first: These findings
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“I’m 64, Diagnosed 1 Year Ago, and Want to Sleep with Another Man for the First Time. Will PD Interfere?”
A Parking Suns reader recently left this comment at the bottom of a post I wrote a few years ago, titled “Gay with Parkinson’s. What are the issues?” Hello. I
Another Year? Another Drug Regimen!
I visited my neurologist last week. As usual, she’s delighted that I’m doing so well, and she adjusted my meds as follows. As before, I’ve included medications prescribed by my
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Choice of Occupation Influences Your Risk of PD
A recent study in the European Journal of Neurology (Professional occupation and the risk of Parkinson’s disease) makes some highly provocative speculations about the relationship between what occupation you choose
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Screening Parkinson’s Pain
That’s screening, not screaming. Earlier this year, the European Journal of Neurology published a study which resulted in the creation of a 14-item questionnaire that patients with Parkinson’s can complete on
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Good News for Parkies with Normal Cognition at Diagnosis: No Risk of Premature Death
According to a Swedish research report reviewed on November 6 this year (the full study was published online on October 31, 2018), Parkies who have normal cognition when they are diagnosed
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Severe Constipation @ Diagnosis = Greater Likelihood for Faster Progression of Parkinson’s
Here’s the first sentence of a recent research report on constipation and Parkinson’s: “Although constipation affects only one third of patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) at the time of
Sleep Disturbances Worsen as Parkinson’s Disease Progresses
Bottom line first: For many Parkies, sleep problems worsen over time. Yes, we already knew this first hand. But some recent research, which followed 218 newly-diagnosed Parkies for five years and
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Soaring with Hope – and a $2500 Raffle!
It’s late at night and Parky has insomnia again. To kill time, he starts browsing the Interweb, and comes across this contest/art project for the upcoming World Parkinson Congress in
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