Parkinson’s disease was named after an English physician, named Dr, James Parkinson. At first he called the disease “Shaking Palsy”. Soon it was named after the doctor as Parkinson’s disease. In the deep parts of the brain, there is a collection of nerve cells that help control movement. This is known as the basal ganglia. For a person with Parkinson’s disease these nerve cells are damaged and don’t work as well as they should. Some ideas experts have is that low dopamine causes the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but no one knows for sure how the nerves that produce dopamine are damaged. Other experts say that a change in a specific gene causes Parkinson’s disease. Another theory from experts is that it could be something in the environment,
