Scientists are about to launch a new study to find a cure for Parkinson’s, which will analyze Parkinson’s disease in an unprecedented depth.
The landmark program will examine what causes Parkinson’s and what causes it to spread in the brain and what causes the symptoms.
Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world. The disease is caused by a lack of dopamine in the brain and has more than 40 symptoms ranging from tremors and pain to anxiety.
Treatments to prevent or reverse Parkinson’s have not yet been developed, and experts do not know how or why the condition develops.
The landmark project will analyze hundreds of tissue samples from the Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank to find out how genes are activated in different cell types in Parkinson’s.
The researchers hope the research will help shed light on the causes of Parkinson’s and Parkinson’s dementia, why some brain cells are more vulnerable to the condition than others, and potential targets for developing new treatments.
They also hope the research will lead to new ways to measure the progression of the condition and to learn which genes or mutations in the body increase someone’s risk of developing Parkinson’s.
