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Announcing: World Parkinson Ping Pong Championship

August 18, 2019 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise | Bruce | 1 Comment

Announcing the first ever International Table Tennis Federation Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championship! Where: Westchester Table Tennis Center, 175 Tompkins Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570, United States of America (about 1 […]

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Acrostic Poem

August 17, 2019 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Jokes, Nutrition, Poetry | Bruce | Leave a Comment

Roaming aroundOur supermarket but neverBuying anything, just alwaysOmnipresent, its teeth areText.

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Sunny Sundays!

August 12, 2019 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce | Leave a Comment

In celebration of all things sunny, and to promote an enriched environment, Parking Suns now features every Sunday on many Sundays a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week we have “Miss Chatelaine” sung dreamy-creamy-smooth by

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Positive Deviancy and Enriched Environment

August 12, 2019 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Nutrition, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise, Research | Bruce | Leave a Comment

Positive Deviance with an Enriched Environment Last week I reviewed research that showed that rats and mice raised in an “enriched environment” and then infected with a chemical that gave

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Sun Poem: Death on a Bicycle

August 9, 2019 | Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry, SubTLE | Bruce | 1 Comment

Death on a Bicycle If you train on a road bike during the boiling hot summer in Nakajo, Japan,Your most valuable equipment, more than glovesHelmet or spare tire,Is sunglasses. There

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Sunny Sundays!

August 4, 2019 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce | Leave a Comment

In celebration of all things sunny, and to promote an enriched environment, Parking Suns now features every Sunday on many Sundays a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week we have a

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Enriched Environment for Mice and Rats with PD

August 4, 2019 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Research | Bruce | Leave a Comment

A meta-analysis (click!) of a few dozen research studies regarding the effects of an enriched environment on rats and mice who the researchers induced with Parkinson’s disease ends with this

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The Sun in Poetry

August 3, 2019 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry | Bruce | Leave a Comment

In Tall Grass Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner           —a skull in the tall grass and

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Enriched Environment: Patter Songs

August 2, 2019 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Jokes, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry | Bruce | Leave a Comment

I sent my sister a Gilbert and Sullivan parody by Randy Rainbow. It’s the second video below; the original Gilbert and Sullivan song is the first. My sister wrote back,

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Do You Think About Death?

July 29, 2019 | Bruce, Other Diseases, Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease, Research | Bruce | Leave a Comment

This past week, the New York Times published an essay titled “Living Intimately with Thoughts of Death,” written by Susan Gubar, who’s been diagnosed with cancer.  Her opening sentence reads,

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Bruce Ballard

My name is Bruce Ballard. I started this website in February, 2015, to promote an “enriched environment” for people with Parkinson’s disease, including myself. Enjoy!

I'm an official blogger for the 2016 World Parkinson Congress (Portland, Oregon, USA) and the 2019 World Parkinson Congress (Kyoto, Japan). Click on the logo to learn more!

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