Curcumin, a component of the curry spice turmeric, has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Both oxidative damage - damage caused by oxygen - and inflammation have been implicated in nerve cell death associated with Parkinson’s disease. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have shown in a laboratory model of Parkinson’s disease [...]

JAMA / Archives - A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D in a new NIH-funded study from Emory University School of Medicine.
The fraction of Parkinson’s patients with vitamin D insufficiency, 55 percent, was significantly more than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (41 percent) or healthy elderly people (36 percent).
The results [...]

People who have had depression are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than people who have never had depression, according to a study published in the April 8, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.