What is the History of Parkinson Disease?
The history of Parkinson Disease is quite long indeed, in fact historians have found evidence of the disease going back well before the birth of Christ.
In the history of Parkinson Disease it was not formally discussed until the 1817 paper entitled "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy", written by James Parkinson.
It is because of pioneering work in identifying symptoms that the disease bears his name.
Dr. Parkinson described the troubling symptoms that he found is certain elderly patients of his. He described what he saw as "a pronounced trembling and an increasing sense of weakness".
The disease is occasionally referred to as paralysis agitans, which means shaking palsy.
Now that we are nearly 200 years past Dr. Parkinson's initial research, doctors have a much better understanding of the disease as well as treatments such as the replacement of dopamine in the brain and, more recently, the addition of drugs whose actions may slow the progression of the disease.
Most doctors (neurologists) concur the Parkinson Disease is due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors and research is continuing.
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