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Rayilyn Brown
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            Parkinson's News Update 
            Parkinson's in the news... January 29, 2010 


                  In this issue 


                  Genes, Diet Offer New Clues to Parkinson's Disease

                  Mice reveal clue to spread of Parkinson's

                  The American Prevalence of Parkinson's Disease

                  Parkinson's patients develop brain abnormalities before symptoms occur

                  Common heart medications may also protect against Parkinson's disease, study finds

                  Wisdom in mushrooms

                  Discovery May Help Young People With Parkinson's Disease

                  Upcoming Events in the Community

                 
                 




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                  a.. Genes, Diet Offer New Clues to Parkinson's Disease
                 
                 Researchers say they've spotted a new genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease, as well as a link between the illness and two other factors, metabolism and vitamin B6. 

                  "Our study reveals the interaction of genetic and environmental factors such as dietary habits in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease," Dr. Matthias Elstner of Germany's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, said in a news release from the German Research Center for Environmental Health. 

                  Elstner is lead author of a new study published in the January issue of the journal Annals of Neurology. 
                 
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                  a.. Mice reveal clue to spread of Parkinson's
                 
                 CAMBRIDGE researchers have used mice to help work out how Parkinson's disease might spread in the brain. The study involved feeding mice very low daily doses of the pesticide rotenone. Previous research has suggested that people who are exposed to pesticides for long periods are at a slightly increased risk of developing Parkinson's. 

                  Researchers tested the ability of the mice given rotenone to walk across a revolving beam. Mice receiving rotenone fell off faster than untreated mice, suggesting the rotenone was in some way affecting their balance and mobility. 

                  The scientists also found a significantly increased number of clumps of the protein alpha-synuclein inside the mice's nerve cells of the gut, spinal cord, and in the brain area, which is worst affected in Parkinson's disease 
                 
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                  a.. The American Prevalence of Parkinson's Disease
                 
                 The prevalence of Parkinson's Disease in the U.S.A. has been found to differ enormously according to location, age and race. The prevalence of Parkinson's Disease in some counties was found to be nearly 12 times higher than in other counties. 

                  Urban areas were more affected than rural areas. Elsewhere, the opposite is usually true. Parkinson's Disease is far from being evenly spread across the U.S.A.. The study revealed a concentration of Parkinson's Disease in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the U.S.A.. Nebraska was previously shown to be the worst affected Complete abstract. 

                  In the over 65s there was found to be a prevalence in some areas of 1 in 7, making it in those places a common medical disorder. Whites were affected with Parkinson's Disease about twice as much as Blacks and Asians, though this difference is progressively decreasing, especially between Blacks and Whites. 
                 
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                  a.. Parkinson's patients develop brain abnormalities before symptoms occur
                 
                 New American research has found that Parkinson's patients develop brain abnormalities before symptoms of the disease start showing. 

                  The study, which appears in the Journal of Neuroscience, also suggests that parts of the network seem to respond in a last attempt to rescue the brain. 

                  Chris Tang, an author of the study and a Parkinson's investigator at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, NY, said: "We were surprised." 
                 
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                  a.. Common heart medications may also protect against Parkinson's disease, study finds
                 
                 UCLA researchers have discovered that a specific type of medication used to treat cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, angina and abnormal heart rhythms may also decrease the risk of developingParkinson's disease. 

                  In the first large-scale population-based study of its kind, Dr. Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, in collaboration with researchers from the Danish Cancer Society, found that a specific sub-class of dihydropyridine cardiovascular medications was associated with a 26 to 30 percent decrease in the risk of Parkinson's. The findings appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal Annals of Neurology and are currently available online. 

                  Parkinson's disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the United States, is characterized by a loss of voluntary movement, the result of the death of neurons in an area of the brain known as the substantia nigra, which is involved in movement control. 
                 
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                  a.. Wisdom in mushrooms
                 
                 For Dr. Marvin Hausman, surgically saving lives has been his life's calling - until now. 

                  The long-time urologist and transplant surgeon and research doctor may have found the key to an effective treatment, if not cure, to a devastating disease that has had doctors puzzled for decades. 

                  Recently, through extensive research with collaborators at the University of Texas and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and through his own work, Hausman may have found an effective treatment, even prevention, for Alzheimer's disease. 
                 
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                  a.. Discovery May Help Young People With Parkinson's Disease
                 
                 Recent research from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has identified genes that contribute to the early onset of Parkinson's disease and might help to identify techniques capable of delaying symptoms. 

                  Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder that generally affects people over age fifty. However, according to medical experts, one in ten patients diagnosed with PD is under the age of fifty. 

                  "I was diagnosed with Parkinson's when I was only thirty-four," says Kay Mixson Jenkins, author of the new children's book Who Is Pee Dee? "It was devastating since I was young and in the prime of my life, working and raising my children." 
                 
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