Brain Substance May Halt Alzheimer’s, Protect Cells in PD

Hope Stories

• Frank’s Story: Welcome to ‘the Club’

  Some people have vacation homes. Frank has the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute. This is where he comes for comprehensive, compassionate medical care for Parkinson’s disease, which he has lived with for 15 years. “They make us feel safe,” says Frank’s...

• Norma’s Story: Essential Tremor

  Question: what progressive neurological condition causes a rhythmic trembling of the head, voice, legs or trunk; can be treated with medication or deep brain stimulation; has no definitive cure; and is eight times more common than Parkinson’s disease? If you’re...

• Mary Ann’s Story: Cervical Dystonia

  Mary Ann, a registered nurse, was the first to notice that her head was tilting ever so slightly to the left. She was able to ignore it for a while, but over time the tilt became more obvious and disfiguring....

• Jerry & Sandy’s Story: A 56-Year Love Story

  When Jerry Wuest began holding his left arm in an odd way, not...

• Charles Sabine’s Story: Huntington’s Disease

  In 2005 the NBC war correspondent Charles Sabine made the life-altering decision to face up to his family history of Huntington’s disease and undergo genetic testing. The odds, he knew, were 50-50 that he, too, had the gene and would...