PERLS207 Lecture : Parkinson Disease March 1.doc
1 May 2012
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In alberta there are 8500 people with parkinson"s disease: diagnosed with parkinson"s disease in 2003 at the age of 59. First noticed pd symptoms in 2000: his handwriting started to become smaller and difficult to read, slight quivering or shaking in right arm. In 2003, he didn"t know what pd was. Initially thought it must be terminal this concerned him. Parkinson"s history: we don"t know exactly when pd was first discovered but there is evidence that medical scientists have been treating parkinson"s for thousands of years. In modern times, dr james parkinson formally recognized parkinson"s in an artical published in 1817 an essay on the shaking palsy . For the next 125 years, there were no effective treatments discovered, it was thought to be a terminal disease. In the 1940-50"s, neurosurgeons began to perform brain surgery which resulted in improvements in pd symptoms only problem was about. Famous people with pd include michael j fox, muhammad ali, pierre trudeau,
