What happened on Dec 14, 2023 (today) that was a historic bi-partisan success for Parkinson's disease? Today, in a vote of 407 to 9 a bill passed in the House of Representatives; the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act HR2365. This bill will cover PSP and other parkinsonisms.

Happy to announce new section Journal of Parkinson's Disease focusing on #global impact #Parkinson. There are substantial differences worldwide in growth Parkinson, how disease presents, access to care, availability of medicines & healthcare services, perception of by community & many other areas.

A terrific all-star lineup ✨ — looks like this will be a great hour — will this be recorded for those can’t make it? 📹

FYI for patients! NYP DBS info session tomorrow night.

🤝 There's still time to spread the word this Parkinson's Awareness Month! Use our ready-to-post social media tools to share the #ABCsOfPD with your social networks: Parkinson.org/parkinsons-awa…

Associations Between Blood-Based Biomarkers and Cognitive and Functional Trajectories Among Participants of the MEMENTO Cohort: bit.ly/49RG6OO #NeuroTwitter #Neurology

Do we need genetic testing prior to offering deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's? A really important debate has recently broken out over GBA status and STN DBS. An early paper from Pal was followed by many multi-country papers. Now, we have a new Italian paper The BMJ and

Synucleinopenia and the Origin of Parkinson's Disease -the final and unrestricted version just published. Andrew Lees IAPRD MDS The Science of Parkinson's doi.org/10.1016/j.park…

Mahlon DeLong (1938-2024) was the GOAT in his long-running career as a combined neurologist and neuroscientist. He took great care of the world's GOAT (Ali), however this is one title (GOAT neurologist-neuroscientist) that belongs to him, and him alone. It is with a heavy heart

I am proud to be a part of this exciting study and honored to collaborate with my amazing colleagues at BU (and other institutions)! Congratulations, Kolachalama laboratory! nature.com/articles/d4158… nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

So wonderful to see old friends & bring new folks to the MDS annual meeting #MDS2024 Sharing the work of Joshi Dookhy, Ashita Gurnani, PhD (there in spirit) & Sarah O'Shea, MD, MSc in examining #Parkinsons disease in the Framingham Heart Study

It is great seeing everyone at MDS MDS 2024! We were excited to share our Parkinson’s Disease work with the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Wonderful working with you,Joshi Dookhy, Ludy Shih, MD, MMSc, and Ashita Gurnani, PhD! #parkinsonsdisease #autonomic #dementia

Kapil, you are in our hearts forever MDS

Thank you for posting, IAPRD! Here is our new study assessing the relationships between cardiovascular risk factors and the development of Parkinson’s disease. Does obesity decrease the risk of PD? Ludy Shih, MD, MMSc