Healthy articles

Bipolar disorder features depressive episodes, but is nonetheless very different from depression. What do you need to know?

Wouldn't it be great if all we had to do was to flip a switch or press a button to turn off pain or tremors or anxiety, or even restore sight? That's the promise of a new branch of medical science known as optogenetics.

Each year in the United States more than 50,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.The condition can strike anyone regardless of age, economic status or geographical region. Statistics show that the condition affects men more often than women.

Among the most common complications of pharmaceutical treatment of Parkinson's disease are sometimes devastating side effects of L-dopa. The Ayurvedic herb Mucuna pruriens (also known as cow-itch bean) provides L-dopa without side effects.

Parkinson's disease is a specific movement disorder characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor and slowing of physical movement.

Parkinson's disease is a specific movement disorder characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing, and in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement.

Neurodegenerative diseases are a common and certainly worrying problem among the elderly population. One of these diseases is Parkinson's disease, which mechanisms are not well understood and therefore lacks of an effective treatment.

On this World Parkinson's Day, one author offers a very personal--and hopeful--view of preventing the progression of the disease.

While the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease remain to be explored, we have a good picture of the mechanism that leads to nerve cell loss in the brain.

Although Parkinson's disease symptoms — as well as their severity and the order in which they appear — vary from patient to patients, some generalizations can be made about patterns. The stages of Parkinson's are based on these.