6 Highroads Living - Volume 11 • Issue 2
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How you can help find a cure for Parkinson’s Did you know, whether you have Parkinson’s or not, you can make a difference in the future of brain health? Michael J. Fox, award-winning actor, author and founder of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), who himself has lived with the disease since 1991 at age 29, has issued a call to action - seeking 100,000 individuals both with and without Parkinson’s to participate in the expansion of an unprecedented scientific study. The Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), first launched by MJFF in 2010, aims to rewrite the future of Parkinson’s disease, and brain health in general. And the more people who take part in the study, the better: More data gathered from over 100,000 volunteers globally will help improve researchers’ ability to predict who’s at risk for Parkinson’s, who gets the disease, who doesn’t and why. This seismic expansion of the study will accelerate the kind of breakthroughs that can lead to a cure - and you can be part of it. The growing prevalence of Parkinson’s disease Today there are an estimated six million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease, including one million in the
