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Sarah Coakeley<\/p><\/div>\n

For most people with a classic form of Parkinson\u2019s disease, medication helps control their symptoms.\u00a0 At least two other progressive brain disorders have similar symptoms, though, and the same medication isn\u2019t as effective \u2013 but researchers can\u2019t yet distinguish between the diseases.<\/p>\n

At the University of Toronto and the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, neuroscientist Sarah Coakeley is using imaging technology to develop a diagnostic test for progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. Coakley has been awarded a $30,000, two-year, Porridge for Parkinson\u2019s (Toronto) graduate student award from the Parkinson Canada Research Program to fund her investigation.<\/p>\n

PSP is one of the rare disorders that affects movement and may initially appear to be Parkinson\u2019s. People with PSP deteriorate more rapidly than people with Parkinson\u2019s, however, and dopamine replacement therapy doesn\u2019t control their symptoms for long.<\/p>\n

Coakeley, a Master\u2019s student, uses Positron Imaging Technology (PET) to scan the brains of people with Parkinson\u2019s disease, people whose brains are healthy, and people who have already been diagnosed with either PSP or multiple system atrophy, another rare disorder. \u00a0The people participating in the study are injected with a special radioactive dye that binds to Tau, a protein in the brain that clumps up in brain cells of people with these neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n

Coakeley hopes to find a correlation between how much dye binds to Tau in the brains of the people in the different groups in her study. If there are more clumps of the protein in the brains of people with progressive supranuclear palsy, as she suspects, the imaging test would help to diagnose that disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will give them a more accurate prognosis, so they are prepared for this rapid disease progression,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Coakeley was captivated by the power of medical imaging when she volunteered as a student at an MRI clinic. Now, she\u2019s fascinated by the stories of the people she works with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t realize until I actually started seeing patients in my project how important this was, and how willing these people are to do research that\u2019s not going to benefit them, but could possibly benefit people in the future,\u201d Coakeley says. \u201cThat\u2019s what really motivates me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Visit our website to read about other researchers<\/a> and their projects, funded by Parkinson Canada Research Program. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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