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The study goal is to recruit 10,000 healthy volunteers so that they can carry out research on the early stages of Parkinson鈥檚.

Parkinson鈥檚 is the second most common degenerative disease of the brain after Alzheimer鈥檚. However, the number of people getting Parkinson鈥檚 is growing faster than any neurological condition and it is estimated that it will affect >14 million people worldwide by 2040. Once the diagnosis is made, there is no cure; there are only treatments to reduce the symptoms.

鈥淧REDICT-PD is a ground-breaking project using simple tests to identify people at high risk of Parkinson鈥檚 disease before the symptoms appear. Research suggests that problems including loss of sense of smell, sleep problems, constipation, anxiety and depression may occur many years before the movement problems of Parkinson's are clear鈥� Professor Schrag.

Dr Noyce added to this by stating that 鈥淚f predictions can be made about who is going to get diagnosed with Parkinson鈥檚, treatments may become available for those in the early stages that could slow or prevent the condition progressing. This would be a major step towards a cure and could have huge knock-on implications for dementia and other age-related diseases of the brain鈥�.

The team also welcomed Dr Zehra Yilmaz in mid-May 2019, as a research study coordinator at 香港六合彩中特网. The team continue to present results from the PREDICT-PD study at various conferences and meetings internationally.

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