{"id":222114,"date":"2025-09-18T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/differences-in-brain-chemistry-shape-two-common-movement-disorders"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:08:18","slug":"differences-in-brain-chemistry-shape-two-common-movement-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/differences-in-brain-chemistry-shape-two-common-movement-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Differences in brain chemistry shape two common movement disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/differences-in-brain-chemistry-shape-two-common-movement-disorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a neurochemical signature that sets Parkinson\u2019s disease apart from essential tremor \u2014 two of the most common movement disorders, but each linked to distinct changes in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-63079-w\">Nature Communications<\/a>, scientists identified unique chemical signaling patterns of two key neurotransmitters \u2014 dopamine and serotonin \u2014 that distinguish these two disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study builds on decades of work,\u201d said a co-senior author, who with colleagues developed the multi-faceted technologies and the theoretical constructs for the work over their 15 years at the research institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a neurochemical signature that sets Parkinson\u2019s disease apart from essential tremor \u2014 two of the most common movement disorders, but each linked to distinct changes in the brain. In a new study in Nature Communications, scientists identified unique chemical signaling patterns of two key neurotransmitters \u2014 dopamine and serotonin \u2014 that distinguish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}