For over 200 years we've been working to find a way to slow, stop, and reverse PD. How many FDA-approved medicines do this? None.
What are we doing wrong? What could we be doing better?
This course provides and introduction to how research is done in PD, why PD is so difficult to study, and provides some thought-provoking suggestions for innovative approaches. I certainly don't expect everyone to agree with me and I'm likely to ruffle a few feathers... but someone has to rock the boat!
Submit your questions, ideas, and opinions now and join us Feb 14 , 2021 at noon Pacific Time for the live discussion!
"Dear Doctor Laurie: Thank you for your inclusive, patient centered didactic style. It gives me both help and hope."
"Thanks for talking about ways to improve patient outcomes with treatments and ideas that traditional medicine neither knows about nor seems to care about."
"Thank you, Laurie. Good overview on PD research studies and your personal goals are in line with ours. Doing what works is so obvious but not always done in many fields."
Your Instructor
Dr. Mischley has spent the past two decades studying the unique nutritional requirements of people with Parkinsonism and working to find better ways to measure, monitor, predict, and prevent PD. Her academic training is in naturopathic medicine (ND), nutrition (PhD), and epidemiology (MPH). She built the Parkinson Symptom Tracking App (www.pd-symptoms.com), has trained dogs to detect the scent of parkinsonism in ear wax (ParK-9.com), is lead investigator of the MVP-Study.com, and is founder of the Parkinson Center for Pragmatic Research (CPR). She created Parkinson-School.com in 2020 as a way to empower patients, accelerate education and catalyze some long overdue conversations.
Course Curriculum
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StartIntroduction & Perspective (5:09)
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StartWhy PD is Difficult to Study (10:12)
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StartAnimal Research (5:50)
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StartRating Scales & Outcome Measures (11:42)
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StartBiomarkers (6:07)
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StartTypes of Studies (8:11)
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StartPlacebo (7:22)
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StartWhole Systems Research (10:00)
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StartParticipating in Research (7:22)
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StartSummary (12:49)
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StartSlides for Download