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2. James Parkinson - Wikipedia

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   James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) [1] was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist. He is best known for his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, [2] in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean ...

3. Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   James Parkinson. Parkinson's disease ( PD ), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor system and non-motor systems. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease progresses, non-motor symptoms become more common. Usual symptoms are tremor, slowness ...

4. History of Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   The history of Parkinson's disease expands from 1817, when British apothecary James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, to modern times. Before Parkinson's descriptions, others had already described features of the disease that would bear his name, while the 20th century greatly improved knowledge of the disease and its ...

5. List of people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   Davis Phinney started a foundation to inspire and inform people with Parkinson's

6. Signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease patient showing a typical flexed walking posture in advanced stage. Signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease are varied. Parkinson's disease affects movement, producing motor symptoms. [1] Non-motor symptoms, which include dysautonomia, cognitive and neurobehavioral problems, and sensory and sleep difficulties, are also ...

7. Causes of Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complicated neurodegenerative disease that progresses over time and is marked by bradykinesia, tremor, and stiffness. As the condition worsens, some patients may also experience postural instability. [1] Parkinson's disease (PD) is primarily caused by the gradual degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the region ...

8. List of eponymous diseases - Wikipedia

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   An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a fictional character who exhibited signs of the disease; and, in some few instances, after an actor or the ...

9. Parkinson's disease and gut-brain axis - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease and gut-brain axis. Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, affects 1% of people over 60 years of age. [1] [2] [3] In the past three decades, the number of PD cases has doubled globally from 2.5 million in 1990 to 6.1 million in 2016.