Jerusalem Scientist Finds Breakthrough in Parkinson’s Fight

“A scientist in Jerusalem has developed a test that detects the degenerative brain disease both definitively and earlier.”

A possible early detection breakthrough in the fight against Parkinson’s disease has been developed by a scientist in Jerusalem. As reported by Haaretz:

“Parkinson’s disease is the second most prevalent degenerative brain disorder in the elderly, after Alzheimer’s. But by the time one knows one has the condition, it may be spiraling out of control. By the time patients are symptomatic, around two-thirds of the brain cells that make dopamine (the substantia nigra part of the brain) are already dead, says Suaad Abd-Elhadi of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the Kaye Innovation Award for inventing the method to – finally – achieve categorical diagnosis of Parkinson’s. Not only that, but at an early stage of the disease.

Using the kit invented by Abd-Elhadi, now one can know it, even before becoming asymptomatic. Which begs the question of under what circumstances one would check if one isn’t showing symptoms.”