Parkinson’s disease patients turn to dance: Phyllis Valentine never trained as a dancer, but she fondly remembers whirling around the room doing the polka with her father as a young girl. http://ping.fm/LMxWT

Music: It's in your head, changing your brain

Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as 'Do Re Mi.'" Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental systems in our brains that are sensitive to melody and beat. That's not all: when you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way. 

The connection between music and the brain is the subject of a symposium at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago this weekend, featuring prominent scientists and Grammy-winning bassist Victor Wooten. They will discuss the remarkable ways our brains enable us to appreciate, remember and play music, and how we can harness those abilities in new ways.

There are more facets to the mind-music connection than there are notes in a major scale, but it's fascinating to zoom in on a few to see the extraordinary affects music can have on your brain.

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PRF: Treatments
Psychiatrists say treatment may help those with Parkinson's

While neurology plays a big part, psychiatrists and other medical professionals say there's more to it.

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PRF: Nutrition
Berries lower risk of Parkinson’s disease

There are new reveling findings about the power of fruits and vegetables. New research shows men and women who consume berries on a regular basis may have a lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.

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Get on the Bike – and Stay On!
Forced Pedaling Offers Parkinson Patients Relief, New Study Finds. A new study on the effects of bicycling and Parkinson's disease published in the journal "Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair" reported positive results from forced cycling exercise. http://ping.fm/i0WqM

No Longer Misunderstood:
Diligent researchers discovered an inaccuracy in the long-accepted scientific structure of GPCRs, a medically important superfamily of proteins. Thanks to this new knowledge, scientists believe PD medications will evolve.
To find out how this new structure determination should help instruct the design of a new kind of therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease, visit the Parkinson Research Foundation’s online research resource library at:
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European Commission : CORDIS : Newsroom : New research works towards early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease http://ping.fm/hoeMv