"Parkinson's disease... has to do with uncoordinated motor stimulation."
"Parkinson's is preventable...the sooner we recognize it, the sooner we prevent millions of people from ever developing this disease."
"Early life gut microbial programming is influenced by many factors including the mode of delivery, quantity and quality of early nutrition, medications and perinatal stress both prenatally and postnatally."
"There was a void in the community for Africans impacted by Parkinson's disease."
"If you wanna know who's gonna change the future of Parkinson's disease, you just met him."
"Gain control over Parkinson's so it doesn't control you."
"Parkinson patients actually develop new creativity and... found new talents when they are treated with medications."
"Having a diagnostic test that will identify individuals at risk for developing Parkinson's disease would be an extremely important advance."
"Parkinson's disease may start several years before the onset of motor symptoms, providing a window of opportunity for early diagnosis."
"Is Parkinson's disease one disease with many faces or many diseases that share some elements with one another?"
"Treatment can be extremely effective for both motor and some of the non-motor symptoms."
"Mannitol is not metabolizable by humans but it gets into the brain, where in experimental models it dissolves the alpha-synuclein protein of Parkinson's disease. Wow!"
"The problem is, restless legs is not Parkinson's disease, totally different, Parkinson's disease occurs in men, restless legs occur more in women, it's just a totally different disease."
"Because I believe that this discovery is a silver bullet for Parkinson's disease."
"Parkinson's is not a death sentence and treatment and early intervention helps people live longer better lives with the disease."
"Knowledge is power, and the more you know about a disease like Parkinson's, the better quality of life you can live with it."
"The main features of Parkinson's disease: shaking, stiff, slow, and shuffly."
"Early on in the course of Parkinson's you have a lot of your own dopamine floating around helping you with those motor symptoms."
"Giving us a very clear example of why these kinds of conditions may arise many years before the development of other features of Parkinson's disease."
"The opportunities to help patients with Parkinson's disease are continuing to increase."
"I like working with people with Parkinson's. And although it's a tough disease, it's a disease that we do have treatments for that can make a big difference in people's quality of life."
"The symptoms that we think about in Parkinson's, whether it's early or more advanced stages of the disease largely fit into two categories, motor symptoms, and non-motor symptoms."
"Fatigue is a very challenging problem in Parkinson's disease."
"Dry eye is a constant issue and a constant battle for patients with Parkinson's disease."
"Exercise is good for people with Parkinson's disease. It increases flexibility, muscle strength, and releases brain chemicals like BDNF."
"Balance may get a little bit better with levodopa. It's not gonna happen to everybody, but those that will get that benefit, it can improve the quality of life in the long term."
"You have to replace them with the dopamine cells that are lost in Parkinson's disease."
"Understanding fatigue and sleepiness in Parkinson's disease is very important."
"Parkinson's has actually existed for several thousand years that we know of, but it's becoming much more common."
"People who are exposed to pesticides and herbicides have a 60% greater likelihood of developing Parkinson's."
"PD is the poster child for the mind-body connection."
"I've come into this club of being a Parkinson's Club member not by choice but like all of us through a Twist of faith."
"I've been a lifelong pharmaceutical biotech executive, in addition to living with Parkinson's, and for 12 years I managed to maintain a career."
"We're going to cover all the different modalities of the imaging and all the different roles that imaging plays in the diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease."
"Neuroscientists have discovered that part of the problem in Parkinson's disease, and probably other diseases, is an abnormal synchronization of the neurons."
"Exercise and physical therapy are incredibly important treatment options for Parkinson's Disease."
"The holy grail for me, for 40 years of Parkinson's research and treatment, is to finally come up with something that can stop the disease from worsening."
"Parkinson's disease, although initially described over 200 years ago, remains a progressive incurable condition, but that doesn't mean that progress hasn't been made to increase the treatment options."
"Parkinson's disease only affects movement - that's not the case."
"Virtually every patient with Parkinson's disease has some non-motor symptoms."
"Dementia risk is increased with Parkinson's disease."
"There is unfortunately, still at this time, no definitive test for Parkinson's disease other than autopsy."
"Caffeine blocks adenosine and some studies showed that people that drink coffee or other forms of caffeine have a lower risk of Parkinson's."
"Exercise is the most important thing we can do for Parkinson's."
"We sometimes want dopamine to linger around, right? Conditions such as Parkinson's."
"Exercise can partially liberate patients from the drowsiness and motor complications that can be side effects of Parkinson's medication."
"We know in some rare forms of inherited Parkinson's disease, single building blocks of the protein alpha-synuclein... if single building blocks are mutated, it's possible that the protein will be more prone to form Lewy bodies."
"By the time someone gets diagnosed with Parkinson's, they've already lost 40 to 50 percent of their dopamine neurons."
"If we can get into the disease very early... it's not unreasonable to assume that reducing synuclein aggregates or degrading them would actually improve symptoms."
"Our goal is to try and stop slow progression of Parkinson's and eventually cure the disease."
"I'm a believer in the health benefits of sports and helping people with Parkinson's."
"Parkinson's is potentially a preventable disease if we would sanitize our environment."
"A large chunk of our efforts is going into support for people with Parkinson's today and their families."
"This study is one major learning experience, not just for prodromal, but for people with actual Parkinson's disease today as well."
"There is no evidence that exists that there is a link between RLS and Parkinson's disease."
"Parkinson's is a lot more than just the tremor and the slowness; it's a disease of neurons."
"We all want to cure Parkinson's, and curing it means slowing it down, stopping it, maybe even reversing it."
"Exercise can help manage the symptoms of Parkinson's and possibly slow the progression of the disease."
"Parkinson's disease has motor symptoms like masked facies, resting tremor, and issues with initiating or maintaining movement."
"People who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's who are exercising seven days a week for at least 30 minutes a day have a slower disease progression."
"Parkinson's disease is a complex disease and this is not going to be solved by one research group or one institution; it's a vast international collaborative effort."
"The protein aggregation can make its way through the intestinal neuron up the vagus nerve, which connects the gut to the brain, and into the brain."
"People who were vagotomized many decades ago as they age were protected from Parkinson's."
"It's so good to see you all here and welcome to the 16th annual symposium for Parkinson's disease."
"Everyone in this room is touched by Parkinson in some way, and it's nice to know that you're not alone in that."
"Millions of people in the world have Parkinson's disease and tens of thousands are diagnosed every year just in the United States alone."
"Our goal is to learn a little bit about the directions the treatments are going and what we ought to know to live well in today's world with Parkinson's."
"Dr. Liang is the director of movement disorders at the University of Toronto and also the director of Parkinson Research."
"Parkinson's from my perspective is the most complicated disease in the world."
"Parkinson's disease was probably described in the Bible and in ancient Egyptian writings."
"Parkinson's disease when we see it in our clinic is the tip of the iceberg."
"The disease probably begins well before you thought you had Parkinson's disease."
"He's had Parkinson's disease since 1988, so this guy's wanting to live with his wife who he's been married to for almost 50 years."
"We want to inspire to empower individuals with PD."
"Physically challenging exercise is one of the seven essential elements of an effective Parkinson's exercise program."
"Passive cycling can improve executive function in individuals with Parkinson's."
"The TheraCycle just helps them to kind of get back on top of their symptoms and feel like they're getting some real benefit."
"Shortly after dopamine was discovered as a neurotransmitter, L-DOPA was discovered to actually improve the health and behavior of people with Parkinson's disease."
"I'm fighting Parkinson's by training three days a week doing 45 sets."
"Fighting Parkinson's disease becomes yet another indication for using finasteride."
"You can live a happy and healthy and good and meaningful life with Parkinson's."
"There's every chance for meaning and hope with the diagnosis of Parkinson's."
"For Parkinson's disease... a small cardiac pacemaker-like unit... disrupts something that's going wrong in neural activity and that tremor literally stops; it's just like magic."