Parking Suns: Sunset
I just snapped this pic down the hill from my house. That’s the Hudson River near the Ossining train station and Sing Sing Prison. Note: To examine the photo in […]
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Before Parkinson’s Was Parkinson’s
The NY Times today reviews an exhibit of paintings by Piero di Cosimo, an Italian Renaissance painter who late in life developed Parkinson’s disease (although it wouldn’t be called “Parkinson’s
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Throwback Thursdays Art
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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Take a Walk
Here are three links for the PD crowd. All report on the benefits of taking a walk. 1. The Michael J. Fox Foundation blog reports that people who take nature walks end
Deep Brain Stimulation: Q & A
The Michael J Fox Foundation just published a booklet explaining deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical procedure that can help certain people with Parkinson’s disease. Click here to open it.
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Update: Parkinson’s Disease and Melanoma
I recently blogged about the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and melanoma. Some of the information wasn’t accurate (about the safety of early morning sun), so I updated the post. Click
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More! More! More!
Watch, then read. 1. Watch: Quote from video: [Parkinson’s disease] doesn’t have to be negative. 2. Read: Exercise and Parkinson’s Disease: What’s New? Quote from reading: NPF’s Parkinson’s Outcomes
Throwback Thursdays Art
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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The Sun in Poetry
Imagery The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep, Enchanted towers bosomed in the stream, And blossomed coronals of white-thorn gleam Within the water where the willows sleep— Still-imaged willow-leaves whose shadows
Stay Tuned: Kayagum Sanjo
Today’s Fox Foundation Facebook post “notes” that music can provide powerful medicine for the mind, especially the mind of a Parkie. The post links back to an earlier Fox Foundation
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