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The Man Who Parkinson's Disease is Named After was Implicated in a Plot to Assassinate The King (2018x10)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 10, 2018

In this video: Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder characterized by tremors or shaking, with this particular symptom of the progressive disease resulting from dopamine generating cell death in a part of the substantia nigra region of the brain . The disease was named after James Parkinson, a doctor, who wrote about it in 1817 in his 66-page paper, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.