{"id":75277,"date":"2018-01-15T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chasing-breakthrough-cures-for-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:01:14","slug":"chasing-breakthrough-cures-for-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chasing-breakthrough-cures-for-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Breakthrough Cures for Parkinson\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chasing-breakthrough-cures-for-parkinsons-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are searching for an effective Parkinsons treatment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em> Summary: A disease-modifying drug for Parkinson\u2019s disease remains the goal of researchers as they develop promising treatments using <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/video-crispr-cas9-new-ways-edit-genes-bodies-gene-editing-transcription-silencing\/\">gene therapy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/macromolecular-damage-aging-prematurely-part1-autophagy-series\/\">autophagy<\/a> upregulators, and brain mapping. [Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman<\/a>. This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s, <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/alzheimer-treatments-alzheimers-disease-dementia-part1\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> and other forms of dementia are diseases of aging, and the incidence of these conditions rise with each passing year. Doctors expect these disorders to ramp up with increasing life expectancies.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers aren\u2019t just focusing on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/precision-treatments-alzheimers-disease-part2\/\">treatments for Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>. Fortunately, scientists throughout the world are developing promising treatments for Parkinson\u2019s disease as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/chasing-cure-parkinsons-disease\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/chasing-cure-parkinsons-disease\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are searching for an effective Parkinsons treatment. Summary: A disease-modifying drug for Parkinson\u2019s disease remains the goal of researchers as they develop promising treatments using gene therapy, autophagy upregulators, and brain mapping. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on LongevityFacts.] Parkinson\u2019s, Alzheimer\u2019s and other forms of dementia are diseases of aging, and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75342,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277\/revisions\/75342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}