Doctors could tailor treatments and improve quality of life for Parkinson's disease patients using mathematics research from Queensland University of Technology .



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(From Topix Neurology)

Thanks to NewsBot for finding this:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/229242.php

Based on data collected in two ways:
- symptom analysis;
- DBS data

"Professor Silburn, a professor of Clinical Neuroscience at The University of Queensland, said the research [by Nicole White] ... is fundamental to classifying the various types of patients with Parkinson's disease, thereby providing a much needed basis to assess treatment responses across the various groups. Previously we just lumped them all together and we now know this was wrong,"

Just imagine the impact on both treatment and clinical trials.

John

It is about time to differentiate between the various diseases which are presently lumped together as Parkinson’s disease, treated by same medicines for all.
It is time for the medical establishment to answer to why some PD patients hardly have tremor (like the famous boxer Mohammed Ali) while others suffer mostly from tremor alone.
Thank you Johnt and Newsbot for your posts. I agree, this is a start of a much needed research.