Parkinson’s disease, affects your movement and actions. This disease is more likely to affect the middle-aged and elderly people than the young people. Most people live with this for years until noticing it. This type of disease happens in the brain, the nervous system, and the areas are called the “basal ganglia” and the “substantia nigra”. A person’s brain gradually stops producing dopamine, if you don’t know what dopamine is, it is a neurotransmitter for the body. When someone has less dopamine inside of them it reduces their ability to coordinate their body movement, and emotions. There is not a cure for this disease, but it is in the process. Parkinson’s disease has been around since AD 175, an ancient physician Galen described it to be
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Although in 1817 is when London doctor James Parkinson wrote a detailed medical essay about the topic. The essay was called “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”, which portrayed on how Parkinson’s was a medical condition. A french
Although in 1817 is when London doctor James Parkinson wrote a detailed medical essay about the topic. The essay was called “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”, which portrayed on how Parkinson’s was a medical condition. A french