All Posts: Parkinson's disease

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News Release

Cancer Drug Prevents Build-up of Toxic Brain Protein

WASHINGTON (May 10, 2013) — Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have used tiny doses of a leukemia drug to halt accumulation of toxic proteins linked to Parkinson…

December 12, 2013

News Release

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 —…

December 11, 2013

GUMC Stories

Music for the Mind – Old Songs Create New Memories

(March 08, 2012) — This year’s Music for the Mind brings together songs of the past and present with entertainer Wayne Brady’s imaginative and comic look back on vocalist…

March 8, 2012