Barbara Waszczak

Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a treatment for Parkinson’s disease meant to revive dying neurons in the brain via delivery through the nose. The Boston researchers were able to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s–a decrease of motor function that results in tremors and slowed movements–with a protein called glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, or GDNF. The […]

A possible cure to Parkinson’s disease has been developed to be taken through sufferers’ noses. The devastating disorder is caused by the death of dopamine neurons in a key area of the brain. But a gene that restores and protects dopamine can halt Parkinson’s if administered direct to the brain. It was thought this was […]