HOUSTONâJustin Friendâs parents have doctoral degrees and have worked as university lecturers and researchers. So Mr. Friend might have been expected to head for a university after graduating from high school in Bryan, Texas, five years ago. Instead, he attended Texas State Technical College in Waco, and received a two-year degree in welding.
A flurry of emergent research has linked mitochondrial dysfunction to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Mitochondrial dysfunction results in impaired ATP generation, loss of cellular repair mechanisms, and cellular inefficiency.
Researchers found that one of the earliest symptoms of Parkinsonâs may be a REM sleep disorder known as REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD). There are a few things that happen with RBD: 1  Usually when we sleep, the body shuts down our muscle movement during REM sleep so that we canât act out our dreams.