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West of Scotland Research Interest Group
Connecting the Parkinson's community through research
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- Wed, 28 FebOnline via Zoom
Recent presentation: Professor David Dexter spoke on 22 Nov about research with the greatest potential to transform life for people with Parkinson’s, Parkinson's UK's research strategy and ambitions, and how to get involved and take part.
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Singing for Scotland: how singing works for people with Parkinson’s, and how you can get involved and take part.
Online, Thursday 26 Jan 2023, starting at 2pm.
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Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Dr Yoon Irons and singing leader Rachel Hynes will showcase current research on how group singing can benefit those with Parkinson’s disease. The session will include a discussion on recent research conducted by Yoon Irons on group singing and how it can improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s, and a demonstration from Rachel Hynes on what a singing leader might do in a typical Singing for Parkinson’s group session. Brianna Robertson-Kirkland will conclude the presentation by highlighting the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded network Scotland’s Singing for Health Network, and the work they are doing to promote singing for health to support those living with long-term health conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. If you would like to know more about Scotland’s Singing for Health Network and research into Singing for Parkinson’s please visit: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/conditions-and-singing/parkinsons-disease/.
Joy Milne will speak about using smell to identify people with Parkinson’s:
Joy’s husband was diagnosed at 44 as a YOPD and had to retire at 50 as the long hours of Anaesthetics and accuracy of hitting veins was no longer possible. However, when he was 31/32 Joy noticed a change in body odour. Later, attending a Parkinson’s UK meeting, Joy discovered the people with Parkinson’s in the room smelt the same as her husband. They realized the significance of this finding...
Online, Tuesday 21 Feb 2023, at 2.30pm.
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Professor Donald Grosset will give a presentation on the research that is ongoing from the Tracking Parkinson’s study, the world’s largest long-term study of people with Parkinson’s, which began in 2012 and is ongoing.
The study is coordinated from Glasgow and involves more than 2000 people with Parkinson’s from across the UK. He will speak about new findings from studies of genes, that will help to identify targets for new drug treatments. He will update about ongoing and planned analysis of the blood samples from the study, that will help to show which proteins and other chemicals in the blood are changed in people with Parkinson’s. He will explain how this added information will also help find new drug treatments. He will also speak about clinical trials of new treatments in Parkinson’s that are running at present in Glasgow, and about additional trials that are planned to start soon. If you are interested in what is new (and what is coming soon) in Parkinson’s clinical research in the West of Scotland, you are sure to find his talk very informative..
Online, Thursday 16 March 2023, at 2.30pm.
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