Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Therapeutic aspects

There is right now no compelling treatment for PSP, despite the fact that researchers are hunting down better approaches to deal with the infection. PSP manifestations typically don't react to prescriptions. Medications recommended to treat Parkinson's sickness, for example, ropinirole, once in a while give extra advantage.

Although individuals with Parkinson's disease markedly benefit from the drug levodopa, people with PSP respond minimally and only briefly to this drug. Also, people with PSP show accumulation of the protein tau in affected brain cells, while people with Parkinson’s disease show accumulation of a different protein, called alpha-synuclein.