{"id":909,"date":"2016-06-23T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=909"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:31:24","slug":"treatment-can-offer-hope-for-relief-of-parkinsons-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/06\/23\/treatment-can-offer-hope-for-relief-of-parkinsons-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment can offer hope for relief of Parkinson\u2019s symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-invasive, home-based procedure to stimulate the inner ear and brain functions that control balance and eye movement can offer hope for the relief of Parkinson\u2019s Disease symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Research carried out by the University and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust involving a patient with Parkinson\u2019s Disease (PD) provided evidence of behavioural improvement across some of the disease\u2019s most common and debilitating symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Now the researchers, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/wilkinsond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr David Wilkinson<\/a>, of the School of Psychology, and Dr Mohamed Sakel, director of East Kent Neuro-Rehabilitation Service, are testing if the beneficial effects of the new treatment \u2013 which involves non-invasive, thermal stimulation of the balance organs \u2013 are evident in a larger group.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please go to the Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/10307\/treatment-can-offer-hope-for-relief-of-parkinsons-symptoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-invasive, home-based procedure to stimulate the inner ear and brain functions that control balance and eye movement can offer hope for the relief of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/06\/23\/treatment-can-offer-hope-for-relief-of-parkinsons-symptoms\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140630,109,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}