Tag: Dopamine

  • New Hope for Parkinson’s Patients

    New Hope for Parkinson’s Patients

    Tantalizing new studies point to a potential treatment. Parkinson’s is a remorseless, incurable disease that causes stiffness, tremors, difficulty walking, and depression. People suffering from the disease have a loss of nerve cells (neurons) in an area of the mid-brain called the substantia nigra. Latin names always sound impressive, but this one just means “black stuff.”…