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Parkinson’s disease By: Arielle Kim Approximately ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease, a chronic and progressive neurological disorder that affects the way you move. This disease can span from a couple years to one’s entire lifetime, worsening as time progresses. Parkinson’s is typically found from the age 60 and onward, but it can also affect people of younger ages. Parkinson’s disease has many symptoms that affect the human body and mind, but the five most recognizable…

“My child was fine last week, last month – and now I have lost her. This is not my child; what has happened? What do I do? (Sudden & Severe Onset)” For every parent with a child that has an illness, this seems to be a recurring story. Many parents and specialists are desperate for an explanation that makes sense as to why this a child may be fine one day and a completely different child the next, and unfortunately do not find answers. Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated…

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…

Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, and progressive motor system disorder; meaning that over a prolonged period of time the patient’s brain cells that produce dopamine deteriorate, and that with every passing day the symptoms get worse. This makes daily life difficult as these symptoms include involuntary movements, sleep disturbances, mood swings, difficulty walking, speaking, and eating, and trouble recalling specific details. This disease currently has no known cure, but there are treatments…

Treatments for this disease vary. There are various ways to control the progression of symptoms, and some have even brought back quality of life for a long period of time. However, there is no ‘cure’ to parkinson’s. One of the most common treatment option is prescription drugs. These include, but are not limited to: Artane, Azilect, Cogentin, Comtan, Dopar, Larodopa, Mirapex, Neupro, Requip, Sinemet, and Tasmar. Each of these are designed to maintain motor function and prolong the more negative…

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurological condition of which there is currently no cure. The main pathological feature of the disease is degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons within the brain, primarily in the Pars Compacta region of the Substantia Nigra (SN). This is thought to be a result of the formation of soluble aggregates of α-synuclein known as ‘Lewy Bodies’ in the neurones of PD patients, which can be clearly seen in various regions of the brain upon post mortem…

Parkinson’s disease is a disorder in the nervous system slowly kills off and malfunctions certain parts of the nerve cells in the brain. It is a movement disorder of the hands, arms, legs, jaw and face that plays with postural instability making the human unbalanced and uncoordinated. It stiffs up the limbs making the body very rigid and slow in movements. The disease comes with the loss of brain cells that eventually will release the chemical called dopamine. The role of dopamine of the human…

Postural Tremor As stated above, postural tremor occurs when the limb is placed in a fixed position against gravity, and may continue or increase during movement. Postural tremor is subdivided into physiologic tremor, ET, alcohol or drug withdrawal, metabolic disturbance, drug-induce tremor, and psychogenic tremor. Each subtype of tremor is discussed in the paragraphs below. Physiologic tremor. Physiologic tremor exists in all mankind including people who are healthy; however, it is typically…

side of the body as a typical onset. B. PD involves malfunction and/or death of neurons in the brain, which are vital nerve cells. 1. PD affects certain areas and structures of the brain called the substantia negra, the globus pallidus, basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, and a few others. In Latin, substantia negra means “black substance”, and that portion of your brain shows…

There are more than 100 types of cancers that exists; and any part of the body can be affected by it. Neuroblastoma is one of those cancers, and it usually appears around the adrenal glands, which sits at the top of the kidneys. It can also develop onto other areas of the body for example the chest, neck, and near the spine. The reason why is because those are areas where groups of nerve cells exists within the body. Neuroblastoma is a very common cancer that mainly affects infants and children…