| Here we are discussing a disease that | | | | what causes this condition. Having said |
| around fifty thousand Americans are | | | | all that, Parkinson's has been known to |
| diagnosed with every year. That disease | | | | be brought on by severe drug abuse or |
| is Parkinson's disease. Usually its | | | | certain types of head injury. Strangely, |
| people over 60 that are diagnosed with | | | | according to research, cigarette smokers |
| this, but people can get it before the | | | | appear to have less of a chance of |
| age of 40. Once you get over the age of | | | | developing Parkinson's disease, which |
| about 60, Parkinson's will be on the | | | | has led experts to believe the |
| radar of doctors when new symptoms | | | | probability that nicotine has some |
| appear that are indicative of the | | | | protective qualities against the |
| disease. According to one piece of | | | | fluctuations caused by Parkinson's |
| research Parkinsons is more prevalent in | | | | disease. So smoking has a benefit after |
| men than in women. | | | | all. |
| This disease is an incurable disease | | | | The latest news is that new treatments |
| affecting the patient's nervous system | | | | for Parkinson's disease are at the |
| where the neuro-transmitters inside the | | | | leading edge of current studies, with |
| brain start to malfunction, causing | | | | experiments being carried out with stem |
| shaking in the body and limbs that gets | | | | cells and gene therapy. |
| progressively more pronounced as time | | | | The diagnosis of Parkinson's is a |
| goes by. Other symptoms include slowing | | | | distressing time for any patient and |
| of movement and rigidity of muscles. | | | | anybody close to them. As a progressive |
| Non-tremor symptoms of Parkinson's can | | | | condition, patients suffering with the |
| include relative immobility of body | | | | condition have to come to terms with the |
| sections particularly the face which can | | | | fact that there is no hope of recovery, |
| be seen as a blank look or mask-like | | | | but rather a gradual process of loss of |
| lack of expression. When brain cells | | | | movement and co-ordination. An early |
| deteriorate, one outcome is Parkinson's | | | | diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is |
| disease | | | | vital to the patient being able to keep |
| This degenerative disorder is not passed | | | | some independence, and a decent quality |
| genetically, nor is it contagious and | | | | of life for a reasonable length of time. |
| very little information is known about | | | | |