The QPK blog

Mileha Soneji was a product designer in the Netherlands when her uncle was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. As a product designer she...

Recommendations for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) include increased physical activity and socialization in order to help manage...

Music is a creative force that has long been harnessed by the medical world for its positive effects on our health. Parkinson’s disease...

To understand gene therapy, it is important to first understand what a gene is and how it works. Genes are small portions of DNA which...

Imagine a world where people can go into healthcare clinics, watch some video clips, and subsequently receive a diagnosis for...

Part of learning about Parkinson's disease is keeping up with new research articles. Here we'll be summarizing and breaking down a paper...

Caregivers of those with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) can range from family members to hired help and it can be a challenging job. Luckily,...

Involuntary rhythmic movements of one of many body parts, known as tremors, are motor symptoms that manifest in over three quarters of...

There are many factors that lead to the onset of Parkinson’s disease. Many of you may have heard of the genetic factors such mutations in...

While Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are both neurodegenerative disorders (i.e. entail cell death in some parts of...

Medications are commonly used to help treat Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and the different symptoms experienced from the disease, but there...

People who have Parkinson’s disease can develop functional activity disorders which can directly relate to a loss of certain reflexes. In...

Mitochondria have been linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) for a few decades now… but what are mitochondria? And what do they have to do...

Summer can be a lot of fun when you do it right! That being said, what are some things to think about before enjoying the sunshine? The...