All Posts: neurodegenerative disease

• Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and well tolerated. Researchers also report finding an increase in dopamine, the chemical lost as a result of neuronal destruction, and a decrease in neurotoxic proteins in the brain among […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, clinical trials, mind, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease

• New Clinical Trial Will Test Cancer Drug as Alzheimer's Treatment

  The following is a press release issued by the ADDF: NEW YORK (September 29, 2016) – The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announces a $2.1 million grant awarded to R. Scott Turner, MD,

  Category: News Release Tags: Alzheimer's disease, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience

• Removing Protein “Garbage” in Nerve Cells May Help Control Two Neurodegenerative Diseases

  Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have new evidence that challenges scientific dogma involving two fatal neurodegenerative diseases — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) — and, in the process, have uncovered a possible therapeutic target as a novel strategy to treat both disorders.

  Category: News Release Tags: ALS, dementia, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease