We've all heard the riddle: A lost hiker caught by surprise with a fierce winter storm stumbles into an old trappers cabin. It is cold...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a viperfish that prowls through my brain, attacking my neurons and depleting me of much-needed dopamine… It’s...

I hear you. Improvisation may sound scary, silly, perhaps even pointless. I can write furiously from where I am, as a decades-long...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the thing that goes bump in the night. I can’t always see its physical effects, but I can always feel it...

It’s time we got serious about Ending Parkinson’s disease - the book and the movement. My latest writing class with PD participants, “Day...

Thousands of researchers, clinicians, people with and affected by PD descended upon Barcelona last week for the sixth annual World...

Telling a sad sack story about Parkinson’s disease (PD) is boring. That’s what Michael J. Fox tells us in the first ten minutes of his...

This is a blended letter written from Susan Scarlett, beginning at the end of the 2021 Day One Superheroes program, and revised before...

Written by YAX's own First Follower, Susan Scarlett Prior to my diagnosis of Parkinson’s, I began to notice my handwriting shrinking....

Traveling is not easy for my dad, a 78-year-old man who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in 2001. At the same time, him...

Our current medical system is brilliant at acute and emergency care. We have fantastic and dedicated practitioners, surgeons and...

Here's a snippet of our interview with Cole Galloway, PhD. His research Research focuses on physical rehabilitation for children. He is...

The following is the opening transcript from an interview with an awesomely inspiring Run Disney enthusiast who has been making and...

Care partners play a vital role in the lives of their loved ones with PD. At the same time, there’s all too often a gap between them....

The final long run of my marathon training was scheduled for twenty miles. I planned to do it on Friday, Dec. 16 in Walnut Creek, CA...

Blog #2 on my first marathon training One of the things I really enjoy about long runs (anything over six miles starts feeling long to me...

I came across the phrase, "the story I'm telling myself" in Brene Brown's "Rising Strong". She operationalizes it to identify her...

Whenever I mention what I call “The YAX Factor” to people who have played improvisation with Robert Cochrane, they all know what I mean....

One of the power phrases of improvisation is “trust the unknown”. While this sounds exciting to me, as someone who adventures into the...

Who doesn’t like to smile and laugh? Who doesn’t like to belong to a group of people that you know you will enjoy spending time with? ...