Dr. Cathy Ann Perkins MD

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  There’s an old cliché: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Researchers studying neurological disorders are discovering that the cliché may not be far from the truth. Staying positive and fighting against depression and anxiety are central to any long-term fight against disease, and those who...

• New Drug for Parkinson's Disease Approved by FDA

  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently passed a new drug called amantadine extended release capsules to treat dyskinesia in those who have Parkinson’s disease and  are also on medication therapy. The Michael J. Fox Foundation recently created the UNDRS or Unified Dyskinesia Rating...

• Parkinson’s: How Three Famous Individuals Fought the Disease

  Parkinson's is a degenerative central nervous system disorder that affects an estimated 1 million people in the U. S. alone according to the National Parkinson Foundation. Despite recent efforts, the disease remains to be a mystery to the medical world with no known cure and no known accurate...

• Actress Teri Garr Calls Multiple Sclerosis a “Scum Sucking Pig of a Disease”

  Teri Garr is a 73-year-old actress best known for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Oh, God!,  Tootsie, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She also played Phoebe’s biological mother on the TV sitcom Friends. One day in 1983, Teri went out for a run around Central Park in New York. She began...

• Is Forced Exercise Really A Treatment for Parkinson's?

  Across the US, people are gathering together a few times a week to climb on their stationary bikes and peddle like nobody’s business. These aren’t spin classes, nor are the riders training for the Tour de France.  Instead, these are people who are challenging themselves and pushing their bodies...

• Veteran's Son with Muscular Dystrophy Gets A Generous Donation From "Warriors in the Field"

  Like so many young boys out there, 13-year-old Braden Allen loved nothing more than to climb the family hunting blind and spend the day outdoors with his father. Unfortunately, after a diagnosis of muscular dystrophy, that hobby and the wonderful bonding time had to be set aside.  ...