Advanced Therapy for Parkinson's Disease

Device Assisted Technologies for the Advanced Therapy of PD

We talked a bit about the medications for Parkinson’s disease and how effective they are. Patients often say to me “Will...

Neurodegenerative Disease - Causes - Genes

Neurodegenerative Disease – Genes

Probably the most common question I get asked by support groups and people in general is “Is this disease of mine...

Treatment for Atypical Parkinson's Disease

Treatment for Atypical Parkinson’s Disease

Our treatment for atypical Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Multiple System Atrophy, Corticobasal Syndrome, Vascular Parkinsonism is much harder. In these...

Immune System and Cell Death

The Immune System and Cell Death

One of the things we see in degenerative diseases of the brain is the idea of inflammation or the immune system...

Proteins, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Dementia

The Role of Proteins in Brain Disease

We know that most of the diseases of the brain that we’re seeing that are degenerative, seem to be associated with...

The Research Clinic

All of the work I conduct relies on the good will of patients participating in the clinic. Here we can collect...

Is CURE a four letter word in Parkinson’s

Prof Simon Lewis explains the current approaches that people are taking in the pursuit of a cure. Australia is opening trials...

Slowing Cell Death

What other approaches do we have for slowing cell death? Well we know that a number of the diseases there seems...

where's the cure for Parkinson's and Dementia

Where’s the cure?

Everybody who gets a diagnosis of a brain disease where cells are dying, wants to know the same thing “Where’s the...

Future of Parkinson's research

Signs of Hope

When patients come to see me in the clinic they often accuse me of being a little bit cynical because I...