Here’s something that happened to me this week. I work in a public charter school in the Bronx, and I was in a 5th Grade science class while the children […]
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Here are two contrasting stories of Young Onset Parkies in the recent news. 1. Top Reader Response in This Week’s New York Times Chris, in San Francisco, wrote a reader
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A Parking Suns visitor, Elena McDermott, recently sent me a swell list of online resources for people who are senior and disabled – and for their care givers. Let’s review them one-by-one:
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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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I’ve started attending the weekly Parkinson’s Ping-Pong night at the nearby Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville. It’s really a wonderful service they provide. Typically about ten Parkies are there,
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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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If you’re in New York City this weekend, be sure to join the Parkinson’s Unity Walk in Central Park. Thousands of Parkies will be there, as well as their friends,
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Yesterday’s BBC reported that an international research team was able to reverse Parkinson’s disease in mice (or at least greatly reduce their symptoms) by re-engineering cells already in the brain (called
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Today is April 11 – World Parkinson’s Day! From the website Unite for Parkinson’s: WHAT IS WORLD PARKINSON’S DAY? World Parkinson’s Day is held on 11 April every year. It
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As I have written before, Parkies are at high risk for anxiety disorder. This is not merely because we’re reacting in fear to our diagnosis, but because PD changes the chemical
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