A simple skin swab based on the powers of 'super smellers' could detect devastating Parkinson's disease up to seven years before symptoms appear. Parkinson's is an incurable neurological condition ...

Being able to do the test then - because finger dexterity is after all an important marker of brain health - is all well and ...

A new blood test may more accurately identify blood signatures, or biomarkers, for Parkinson's disease (PD), according to a new study published in the journal Movement Disorders. The study, conducted ...

Some Parkinson’s patients may experience strange symptoms, like smell loss and sleep disorders, decades before diagnosis.

Two proteins found on the surface of motor neurons in the brain may be essential in the progression of Parkinson's disease, ...