In the lingo of the field, dopamine-producing cells are measuring a reward prediction error — the difference between the ...

Parkinson's Disease affects around a million people in the United States, and that number is on the rise, in part because our population is getting older. Dr. Claire Henchcliffe is the chair of ...

Psychedelics and Parkinson’s may trigger hallucinations through the same system, revealing how fragile the balance is between ...

Parkinson’s disease — which can cause tremors, slow movement and stiffness — is believed to affect 1 in every 336 Americans. The exact cause of the neurodegenerative disorder is not known, but it is ...

Excitement is building following the development of a ground-breaking technique that enables scientists to detect tiny clusters in the brain which are believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease. One of ...