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Skin biopsies can diagnose both Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions called prion diseases, recent studies …

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More than 200,000 people in the US alone are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease yearly, but it …

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A type of test known as a seeding assay has been shown to be very good …

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A protein called alpha synuclein is normally found in our bodies, but it’s also found in …

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Used to be Parkinson’s disease was thought of as a movement disorder, but now it’s known …

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Prions are misfolded proteins that can infect us and cause our normal proteins to fold incorrectly …

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Prion diseases are caused in people when an aberrant form of a protein that is already …

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The rare brain disorder abbreviated CJD, for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, can be diagnosed with two or more skin …

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Skin biopsies have proven better at diagnosing the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob, abbreviated CJD, than doing a …

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or CJD is a rare neurological condition that may initially look like dementia and that …

Diagnosing some neurologic diseases may now use a skin biopsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →