Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive movement disorder. It happens when nerve cells in the brain don’t produce enough of a brain chemical called dopamine. Parkinson’s disease was founded by a doctor in London in1817 name James Parkinson. He wrote a book called the “shaking palsy” that he researched in his neighborhood to find out where the disease came from Weintraub, D. (2008)” Dopamine and shaking palsy in “Parkinson’s disease” Practical Neurology 80(4);110-125, 2011
Parkinson’s disease sign and symptoms differ from each person there are four major signs and symptoms. The first sign are tremors or shaking this symptom is very difficult because it’s hard for the person to hold things without …show more content…
The nervous system is affected because the motor neurons will stop working which makes it harder for the muscular system to do its job. The nerve cell make an important chemical called dopamine which sends signal to the brain for movement without the nervous system the body will be hard to move because if the dopamine can’t end the signal the body can’t move which can be very difficult. The muscular system permits movement and circulate blood if the muscular system stop working it can cause poor circulation in the body which can cause death”. (Aarsland Bronnick et al …show more content…
People really struggle with the diagnosis because it’s there first time dealing with it. They get frustrated so they get help with rehabilitation far as walking helping with their movement also speech therapy for trouble swallowing. www.mayoclinic.org/diseases/
The diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease is made on neurologist ground if the person is experiencing tremors stiff movement they will be given lab work to see if the person has the disease if the results come back positive they will be diagnosed with the disease. www.medicine.net
According to the text on page 13 chapter 18 in the encloypedia “the Parkinson’s disease is often accompanied by these additional problems which may be treatable are thinking difficulties may experience cognitive problems and trouble thinking. The research is concentrating in determining the effect of both genetic susceptibility and environmental assaults” Aber, J. L., Bennett, N. G., Conley, D. C., & Li, J.