Movement Disorders Foundation
Movement disorders are clinical syndromes with either an excess of movement or a paucity of voluntary and involuntary movements, unrelated to weakness or spasticity. This includes movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonian syndromes, Huntington’s disease, Dystonia, Myoclonus, and Ataxia along with others.
Our Core Beliefs
- Research opportunities that will translate into solutions across the movement disorders spectrum in hopes of rapidly bringing both symptomatic relief and possible cures for those in need.
- The value of patients having in-depth knowledge of their disease, its treatment modalities, and recent scientific advances relating to their disease.
- The importance of assessment in advancing research and patient care.
We see opportunities to help those with movement disorders, those researching potential treatments, and those who are caring for individuals.
Further, we see opportunity at every stage of these diseases, from diagnosis to treatment, to measuring impact on patients and caregivers, to improving the quality of life of patients and their caregivers.
Recent research has shown that there are commonalities across various movement disorders, and at various stages of disease management.
In the pursuit of advancements from science to treatment, our focus on funding innovative research and cutting-edge science will help find successful treatments and identify approaches to better manage these diseases.
There is opportunity in being more efficient and creative with caregivers’ time by providing data and assisting in the development of mobile technologies.
Also, seeking additional scientific approaches to help caregivers have a better quality of life for specific diseases, while looking for similar possibilities with other movement disorders.
We engage in active education for both patients and their caregivers.
A focus of the foundation is providing symposiums - both in person and virtual - for the various movement disorder communities with the latest information in research, treatments and support.
Our Researchers We encourage research that both has promise in a specific disease, and where possible, may also advance understanding of other movement category diseases. We understand and encourage publication of the research that we fund in keeping with the spirit of a truly collaborative scientific community and emphasize the importance of open access and scientific transparency. We are interested in helping researchers take scientific risks to the benefit of patients as soon as possible, taking into account the risks involved in accelerating the process of treatment discovery, development and application.
Our Donors We greatly appreciate all donations, including those who support our approach to science and are interested in continuing those research efforts over time as they begin to translate into clinical trials. We look to fund and support relatively high-risk, high-reward innovative research, which has the potential for rapid translation to treatment.