Fixing brain connections in Parkinson's disease

Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition and the second most common neurodegenerative disorder - around 145,000 people live with the condition in the UK. Current therapeutics only treat symptoms so there is an urgent need to find ways to prevent the onset of Parkinson’s and slow progression.

Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly (Group Leader and UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University) studies communication between brain cells using research models of Parkinson’s. His team are aiming to decipher how miscommunication arises at the earliest stages of Parkinson’s, and find new ways of correcting it before significant loss of cells in the brain, and symptoms appear.