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Category Archives: Parkinson’s Disease
Evidence on the Potential of the Arts for Improving Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing (WHO)
Summary The World Health Organization has published an evidence review broadly supportive of the notion that engaging with the arts is beneficial for mental and physical wellbeing. In addition to being able to help prevent ill health (physical and mental) … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
Tagged Aesthetic Engagement, Animations, Arts Activities in Emergency Settings, Arts and Mental Wellbeing, Arts and Music in Dementia, Arts and Social Activities, Arts Engagement, Arts Practices in Healthcare, Arts Therapies, Attending Literary Festivals, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Cognitive Stimulation, Cognitive Stimulation and Lifestyle, Community Arts Programmes, Community-Based Arts and Health interventions, Concerts, Crafts, Creative Arts, Creative Arts for Dementia, Creativity, Creativity and Artistic Appreciation in Dementia, Cultural Arts Interventions, Cultural Arts Interventions in Dementia Care, Cultural Engagement, Culture, Dance, Dance / Movement Therapy, Dementia and Imagination, Dementia-Focussed Arts Activities, Design, Digital Arts, Dr Piroska Östlin: WHO Regional Director for Europe, Engagement With the Creative Arts by Older People, Evaluation of Arts-Based Interventions, Evocation of Emotion, Exercise Activities, Film, Galleries, Health Behaviours, Health Benefits of Arts Engagement, Health Evidence Network (HEN), Immune System, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care: University College London, Involvement of the Imagination, Literature, Multi-Sensory Stimulation, Multisensory Stimulation, Museums, Music, Online Arts, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Physical Activity, Physical Exercise, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reading, Referral Mechanisms From Health and Social Care to Community Arts Programmes, Reminiscence and Sensory Stimulation, Sensory Activation, Sensory Stimulation, Singing, Social Integration, Social Interaction, Social Prescribing, Theatre, Visual Arts, WHO European Region, WHO Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO), Writing
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Football and Dementia Risk: Mortality From Neurodegenerative Disease Higher in Former Professional Soccer Players (BBC News / Drake Foundation / NEJM / Bazian)
Summary The Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD) study, based at Glasgow University and supported by The Football Association and The Professional Footballers’ Association, found that former Scottish professional football players tend to be over 3.5 times more … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Scotland, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alan Shearer, Bazian, BBC Health News, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Sport, Behind the Headlines, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Concussion Action Programme, Dementia in Retired Association Football (Soccer) Players, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Department of Neuropathology: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Drake Foundation, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Football Association, Football Association (FA), Football Brain Injury Research, Football Headers, Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD) Study, Former Professional Soccer Players, Giffnock Soccer Centre, Glasgow Brain Injury Research Group, Glasgow University, Hampden Sports Clinic: Hampden Stadium (Glasgow), Heading Footballs Associated With Dementia / CTE: a New Category of Industrial Injury?, Heading Heavy Leather Footballs, HEADING Study (Health and Ageing Data IN the Game of football), Heading the Ball, Inside Out South (BBC), Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences: University of Glasgow, Institute of Health and Wellbeing: University of Glasgow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology: University of Glasgow, Iwan Roberts: Former Wales and Norwich City Footballer, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modifiable Risk Factors, Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality in Former Professional Soccer Players, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neuropathology, New England Journal of Medicine, Norwich City, Professional Footballers, Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (rTBI), Retired Soccer Players With Dementia, SCORES Project, SCORES Study: Screening Cognitive Outcomes After REpetitive Head Impact in Sport, Scottish Football Association, Scottish Football Association (Proposed Ban on Under-12s Heading Balls in Football Training), Soccer Heading, Sports Medicine, Sub-Concussive Head Impacts, Traumatic Brain Injury, University of East Anglia (UEA), University of East Anglia (UEA) Health and Social Care Partners, University of Glasgow
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Non-Pharmacological Treatments for Lewy Body Dementia (Psychological Medicine / International Psychogeriatrics)
Summary Lewy Body Dementia (dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia) involves visual hallucinations, fluctuating cognition / attention, motor disturbances, falls, and extreme sensitivity to antipsychotics. Caution in the use of pharmacological treatments such as antipsychotics is advised in … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adverse Sensitivity to Neuroleptics, Antipsychotic Sensitivity Reactions, Antipsychotics: Neuroleptic Sensitivity, Aspiration of Fluids in Patients With Dysphagia, Australia, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Carer Education, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of Nucleus Basalis of Meynert (NBM) in Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration: UNSW Sydney, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), Department of Old Age Psychiatry: King's College London, Department of Psychiatry: University of Cambridge, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), Environmental Modifications, Exercise for Dementia, Fluctuating Cognition, Guy's Hospital: King's College London, Improving Gait, Institute of Health and Society: Newcastle University, Institute of Neuroscience: Newcastle University, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience: King’s College London, International Psychogeriatrics, Kings College London, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT), Lewy Body Dementia, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Mirrored Self-Misidentification Delusion, Music Therapy, Music Therapy and Dementia, Music Therapy for BPSD, Newcastle University, Non-Motor Fluctuations in Parkinson's Disease, Non-Pharmacological Treatments for Lewy Body Dementia, Occupational Therapy, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia (PDD), Physical Therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment), Prevention of Fluids Aspiration in Patients With Dysphagia, Psychological Medicine (Journal), Severe Antipsychotic Sensitivity Reactions, Severe Neuroleptic Sensitivity, Severe Sensitivity to Antipsychotic Agents, Simulated Presence, Simulated Presence Therapy (SPT), Simulated Presence Therapy for BPSD, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Sydney Medical School: University of Sydney, Task-Oriented Motor Practice, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Treatments for Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's Disease Dementia, University of Cambridge, University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Sydney, UNSW Sydney, Visual Hallucinations, Walking Pattern (Gait)
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Smell Test for Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease (BBC News)
Summary Parkinson’s Disease has a distinctive odour for certain gifted individuals, which has been analysed chemically and may now be replicated for automated detection by machine. This may, in future, permit earlier diagnosis and open the possibilities for timely treatments … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Scotland, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged ACS Central Science (Journal), Anatune (Cambridge UK), BBC Health News, BBC Scotland News, Biomarkers, Biomarkers Predicting Parkinson's Disease, Department of Biochemistry: University of Liverpool, Department of Neurology: Salford Royal Foundation Trust, Early Diagnosis, Early Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease, Edinburgh University, Eicosane, Hyperosmic Super Smeller, Institute for Stem Cell Research: University of Edinburgh, Institute of Integrative Biology: University of Liverpool, Joy Milne, Les Milne, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre: University of Manchester, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Non-Invasive Biomarkers, Odour, Parkinson's Disease Smell Test, Parkinson’s Disease Sebum Volatilome, Parkinson’s UK, Perillic Aldehyde, Rapid Screening, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, School of Biological Sciences: University of Edinburgh, Sebum, Smell Test for Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, Timely / Preclinical Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, Timely Diagnosis, University of Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, Volatile Biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease, Volatilome
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Further Research Supports Speculation of Link Between Gut and Parkinson’s Disease (BBC News / Science Translational Medicine)
Summary Further evidence implying that the gut may be involved in the development of Parkinson’s Disease has emerged. Toxic (alpha-synuclein) proteins associated with Parkinson’s Disease tend to accumulate in the appendix, and it seems that people who have had their … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged Abnormal Proteins (Alpha-Synuclein), Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation, Alpha-Synucleinopathies, Appendectomy Associated With Delayed Age of Parkinson’s Disease, Appendectomy Associated With Lower Risk of Parkinson’s Disease, Appendix Contains Truncated α-synuclein Proteoforms, Appendix Lysates, BBC Health News, Benefits of Missing Appendix, Canada, Center for Neurodegenerative Science: Van Andel Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Gif sur Yvette, College of Human Medicine: Michigan State University, Department of Clinical Sciences Psychiatry: Lund University, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Michigan State University, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine: Lund University, France, Healthy Human Appendix Contains α-synuclein, Human Gut (Appendix): a Potential Risk Factor for Parkinson's Disease, α-Synuclein, α-Synuclein Aggregation, Lund University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University (Evanston), Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Parkinson’s Disease Pathogenesis, Parkinson’s Disease Risk and Appendix (Gut), Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), Prodromal Parkinson's Disease, Proteomics Center of Excellence: Northwestern University, Psychiatric Clinic (Lund), Risk Factors, Risk Factors for Parkinson's Disease, Science Translational Medicine, Statistics Sweden, Sweden, Swedish National Patient Registry (SNPR), Synucleinopathy Progression, United States, USA, Van Andel Research Institute, Vermiform Appendix, Vermiform Appendix and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
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