A photothermal, nanoparticle-based deep brain stimulation system restored motor skills in mice with Parkinson’s-like disease ...

In a 2015 study, Graybiel found that one of these cell types, D1, sends input to the substantia nigra, which is the brain's ...

Parkinson’s is caused by the loss of dopamine-producing cells in a part of your brain called the substantia nigra. The exact cause of MS and Parkinson’s is not clear, and scientists are still ...

Substantia nigra. Illustration showing a healthy substantia nigra in a human brain. The substantia ... [+] nigra plays an important role in reward, addiction, and movement. Degeneration of this ...

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain.

Researchers suggest drugs that prevent cholesterol from being converted to 24-OHC might therefore be an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease.

Nicole LaBolle noticed a tremor in her arm in her '20s but blamed it on drinking too much coffee and a lack of sleep ...

Axial Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company harnessing the gut–brain axis (G–BA ... to the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra and the formation of α-synuclein ...

Nicole LaBolle initially dismissed her shaking as something fairly common before facing a Parkinson's diagnosis at 28 ...

leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor symptoms in patients, a common clinical approach, deep brain stimulation ...