Discovery may lead to a treatment to slow Parkinson’s disease

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

Using a robust model for Parkinson’s disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues have discovered an interaction in neurons that contributes to Parkinson’s disease, and they have shown that drugs now under development may block the process. The research team has shown that the most common genetic cause of Parkinson’s disease — a […]

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