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Oct-11-11
The Everyday Experience of Living with and Managing a Neurological Condition (The LINC Study) is recruiting participants...MOREAug-30-11
$4.5 million research chair holds hope for Parkinson's patients: Jim Smerdon believes that in his lifetime, researchers will find a treatment that will stop Parkinson's disease from destroying his ability to walk and talk, work and play...MOREAug-30-11
Research Chair funding to support Parkinson's research: Lifelabs invests $2 million to support a research chair in neurogenetic diagnostics...MOREJul-21-11
UBC researchers, with the help of patients and families, are helping to piece together the Parkinson's puzzle...MOREJul-05-11
Participants are needed in a Research Study on Disclosure of Parkinson's disease diagnosis within the workplace...MOREJun-01-11
Parkinson's disease is a complex disease that requires individualized treatment. "No two people are alike. You have to decide what each person needs and treat accordingly." That was the over-riding message of the 8th Donald Calne Lecture delivered by Dr. Stanley Fahn, the H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders at Columbia University in New York...MORE Feb-01-11
Many researchers investigating the causes of Parkinson's disease have focused on the death of the brain cells that produce dopamine. While too little dopamine affects the mobility of people with Parkinson's, neurobiologist, Frank Lee, thinks too much dopamine can be just as destructive to brain cells...MOREFeb-01-11
One of the differences between the way men and women experience Parkinson's disease is that more women develop uncontrollable movements, known as dyskinesias, as a side-effect of the medication they take to treat the illness...MOREDec-01-10
Mitochondria are microscopic structures found within cells. They are often described as the "powerhouses" of cells, as they provide energy for all cellular processes...MOREIn 2010, the Board of Directors of Parkinson Society British Columbia approved $180,000 to fund three BC research projects:
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Dr. Martin McKeown of the Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre at UBC
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Dr. Gordon Rintoul of Simon Fraser University
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Dr. Frank Lee of Simon Fraser University
In addition, the National Scientific Research Program funded two other BC candidates:
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Dr. Catherine Winstanley from UBC-Okanagan who received the New Investigator Award
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Ms. Kaitlyn Roland, also from UBC-Okanagan, who received the Parkinson Society Canada/CHIR-Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health & Addiction Psychosocial Doctoral Award.
This represents a further commitment of $141,333 to BC researchers.
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