NWRIG Blog

Stimulating change for people with Parkinson’s

Working with people with Parkinson’s to prioritise and design new research projects often leads to ideas we (the researchers) could not have thought of by ourselves. Our newest project is a particularly exciting example of this kind of collaboration.   During…

Shall we walk?

Humans long ago made the evolutionary leap from walking on four legs to walking on two. As far as not-falling-over is concerned, this adaptation was a strange one. There’s a reason chairs tend to have, at the least, four legs.…

Movie quiz!

Our Parkinson’s Research Interest Group is moving. Our new home will be here: Looking through the archives of the old website I came across this movie quiz. My friends and all our kids made it during the pandemic to…