Residents learn what life is like with Parkinson's

Denver, CO, YouHub.com, Contributed by: Meghan Dougherty on 6/16/2009
http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Sto...ry~627406.aspx

Parkinson Association of the Rockies, the only organization in the Rocky Mountain region directly assisting Parkinson's patients and their families, developed the simulations to educate people about Parkinson's and to promote its 7th annual "Shake Rattle and Stroll" 5K/1K Fun Walk taking place this Sunday, June 21st in Washington Park.


Spokane hospital closing Parkinson's clinic

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Last updated June 18, 2009 4:30 p.m. PT
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420a...ns_clinic.html

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane is closing its movement disorder clinic next month to cut costs.

The hospital informed patients by letter and encouraged them to find neurologists from other medical groups.


UPDATE: Google Invests Additional $2.6M In Pvt Genetics Co.

The Herald, Sierra Vista, AZ, Published/Last Modified on Friday, Jun 19, 2009 - 02:16:12 am MST
http://www.svherald.com/articles/200...6333246206.txt

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is putting another $2.6 million into 23andMe, a biotech startup with family ties to its co-founder, Sergey Brin.

The investment disclosed Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission builds upon the minority stake that Google already held in the 23andme, which was started in 2006 by Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki.


Presbyterian Home offers Parkinsons patients unique treatment

WKTV, Utica, NY, By NICOLE ESTAPHAN, Story Updated: Jun 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM EDT
http://www.wktv.com/news/local/48628657.html

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - Three years ago the Presbyterian home in New Hartford began an innovative telemedicine project for patients suffering from Parkinsons Disease. The program gives them access to neurologists in Rochester without having to make the trip.

Patients meet with doctors via a computer and 42" inch television screen, just as if they were face-to-face. A nursing supervisor helps patients in New Hartford while doctors give instruction and take notes more than 130 miles away.


Webcast of Parkinson’s forum set at Gaylord University Center

Gaylork Herald Times, Michigan, Friday, June 19, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
http://www.gaylordheraldtimes.com/ar...2977754939.txt

GAYLORD -- The Michigan Parkinson Foundation is pleased to announce the Jay M. Gorell, M.D. Memorial Lecture featuring “Behavioral Aspects of Parkinson’s Disease” presented by Joseph Friedman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Neurology, Brown University, R.I., researcher, clinician, and author of “Making the Connection Between Brain and Behavior: Coping with Parkinson’s Disease.”


United Kingdom: Parkinson's Disease Society Joins Forces With Healthy Interactions To Launch New Education Programme

Medical News Today, Article Date: 18 Jun 2009 - 8:00 PDT
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154489.php

As part of a Europe-wide drive to improve access to information and education for people with Parkinson's Disease, the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) is launching a new education initiative with American company, Healthy Interactions.

The Conversation Map™ tools will address the needs of people at all stages of Parkinson's and those of their families and carers. The interactive sessions will encourage people with Parkinson's to explore facts about their condition themselves and with peers, helping them to make informed choices and to become more motivated to take positive action in dealing with their disease. The key outcome will be better self-management.


An Orchestra In Need Of A Conductor

We Need To Develop A Better Alternative To The Guinea Pig "One-Size-Fits-All" Approach To Medicine

June 19, 2009, By Michael Rugnetta and Jonathan D. Moreno, Special to CBSNews.com

from bioethics.net News Update - Health Care Issues
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5096534.shtml

(CBS) Michael Rugnetta is a research assistant with the Progressive Bioethics Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Jonathan D. Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the Editor-in-Chief of Science Progress.

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Americans today are guinea pigs in a "one-size-fits-all" approach to medicine. Clinical trials designed to gauge if a treatment works for most people most of the time, ignore the influence of genes on health and wellness. Since one size does not fit all, patients are left to travel down a winding path of physician-led trial and error.


Scientists Capture The First Image Of Memories Being Made

Medical News Today, Article Date: 20 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154668.php

The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), McGill University and University of California, Los Angeles has captured an image for the first time of a mechanism, specifically protein translation, which underlies long-term memory formation. The finding provides the first visual evidence that when a new memory is formed new proteins are made locally at the synapse - the connection between nerve cells - increasing the strength of the synaptic connection and reinforcing the memory. The study published in Science, is important for understanding how memory traces are created and the ability to monitor it in real time will allow a detailed understanding of how memories are formed.


Johns Hopkins Neuroscientists Watch Memories Form In Real Time

Medical News Today, Article Date: 19 Jun 2009 - 5:00 PDT
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154609.php

Our ability to form long-term memories depends on cells in the brain making strong connections with each other. Yet while it's not well understood how those connections are made, lost or changed, the process is known to involve the movement of the AMPA receptor protein to and from those neuronal connections.

Reporting this week in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered by watching live neurons that the AMPA receptor goes where it needs