Parkinson 's disease is classified as a disease that impairs bodily movement by affecting the nervous system. Van Den Eeden suggest that people under the age of years old have a 12 in 100,000% chance of getting Parkinson 's disease, while people over the age of 50 years old have about 44 in 100,000% chance in getting Parkinson 's. Problems that are associated with Parkinson 's disease include tremors, bradykinesia, and postural instability; all exhibit some forms of motor loss or involuntary movement. In an article Thomas wrote on Parkinson 's disease he suggest that medications that are being used to treat Parkinson 's disease are only providing temporary treatment for the dopaminergic neurons. Current treatments are not affecting the …show more content…
Thomas and associates are looking into how Parkinson 's is cased because most cases are sporadic, however genes have been discovered that link the disease to rare familial forms of Parkinson 's. Studies that have been done suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative damage, abnormal protein accumulation and protein phosphorylation as key concepts in the diminishing dopamine neuronal function. It is believed that some of the factors that contribute to the clinical symptoms are environmental factors and genetic causation, or a mixture of both. With genetics playing a role in the development of Parkinson 's it has provided clues to understanding molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson 's. While studying Parkinson 's disease, Thomas found that there are five genetic causes for the disease. The first is locus PARK1 and PARK2, it is a presynaptic protein that helps with vesicle recycling and storage. The missense mutations in the locus with the addition of the triplication 's leads to the autosomal dominate disease. PARK2, otherwise known as PARKIN is used in the protection of proteins, its protection is crucial for dopamine neurons to survive. The mutation of the locus a believed to be the cause of the autosomal recessive gene of Parkinson 's that is detected …show more content…
One of the main reason I decided to write on Parkinson 's disease is because after my college life I plan to study medicine, more specifically I plan to study the brain and how it works. For the past year I have worked in an emergency room that takes any type of patient and some of the patients that come in have Parkinson 's disease. Looking at someone with this disease is very emotional because all I want to do is help with because I can see that they are trying to control themselves, but are having a very hard time with it. Another very emotional aspect of it is seeing a patients family member and knowing that they would do anything to try and help but it is out of their reach to give them help. Even though Parkinson 's only affects a small percentage of the world, helping to find a cure for this disease could potentially save someone else 's world. Since Parkinson 's disease starts in the brain I want look at the ways it could be suppressed to stop the tremors. Much research can be done to look at the different ways to stop the communication from the brain to the nerve endings. One of the many goals I have set for my medical career is to find ways to stop certain communications from the brain to the rest of the body, without
Parkinson's disease can range from mild to severe. Over one million
Michael J. Fox is an actor and a writer that was diagnosed at the age of 29 with Parkinson’s disease. When he found out he said, “It was the last thing I expected.” He speaks about his disease regularly and started the Michael J. Fox Foundation, whose goal it is to eliminate Parkinson’s disease. “It is the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s Disease drug development in the world.” And because of this foundation, he was able to control his symptoms and side affects enough to go back to acting by finding a drug cocktail (The Biography of Michael J. Fox).
Name: Matthew Christian A. Griarte Course and Section: MLS 1-1 Name of the Professor: Ms. Peggy Anne Orbe Movie Critique of “ Awakenings” The Writer: Steven Zaillian The Director: Penny Marshall The movie was shown in 1990, based on the book of Oliver Sacks. It is about a Degenerative Neurological Disorder called Parkinson’s Disease, named after an English Doctor - Dr. James Parkinson, who published an essay about the “Shaking Palsy”. Dr. Parkinson described the characteristics as resting tremor, abnormal posture and gait, paralysis and diminished muscle strength or stiffness. It is a Degenerative Neurological Disorder because the affected part is our midbrain and it regresses over time.
Parkinson’s affects the central nervous system eventually leads to triggering in the hand. Alzheimer 's is a disease that affects the memory and important mental functions. Dementia is when a person think a lot which interferes with their daily functions. Huntington’s an inherited condition when nerve cells starts to lose the ability over a period of time. Athletes who come in contact with sports are more like like to get it because in a game there is usually hitting each other or even getting injured dramatically.
Parkinson’s disease is a “disorder of the nervous system that affects movement” (Staff, 2015), but does not have an acute onset. Usually symptoms start with a slight tremor in the hands and then slowly progresses to other parts of the body (Staff, 2015). Even though most people have fast, shaking, movements, Parkinson’s can also cause stiffness or slow movements. According to Mayo Clinic Staff, early signs of Parkinson’s disease may include diminished facial expressions, absence of swaying arms when walking, and “speech may become soft or slurred” (2015). Unfortunately, Parkinson’s does not have a cure, but there are medications out there to help symptoms as well as brain surgeries.
The movie “Awakenings” is a story about a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time. It was Dr. Sacks' inspired understanding of this state as possibly responsive to the drug L-dopa that led to the opening of
The effects outweigh the feelings with meth. Many users can have heart damage, psychosis, long term neurological damage, are more prone to strokes, and have a chance of getting Parkinson’s Disease with age and abuse. Parkinson’s disease is a disorder found in the central nervous system that affects speech, motor skills, and memory. Many abusers have equal to worse effects than most people with Parkinson’s Disease no matter the age of the abuser. Many researchers have struggled with finding an efficient way to cure meth addiction (Sommerfeld
The patient's Dr. Sayer was treating did not have Parkinson’s disease but had symptoms of it. It was wrong to give these patients this drug because they did not have the disease the drug was for. In the end of the movie Leonard started having side effects from the drug. In experimental material this was good because the doctors found the drug did not work. It was also wrong, it gave Leonard false hope that he would be better when he wasn’t.
It was almost as if he had never had Parkinson disease to being with. He was able to play pool, which was his favorite game, again with smiled and without worry. Now he could perform everyday task himself without help. Dale looked at Parkinson disease as an incurable disease. He feared that he was going to have to live with it his whole
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurological disorder that may manifest with a wide range of symptoms. Research suggests that ALS may be related to a genetic mutation, but no known cause has yet to be identified. Diagnosis of ALS is achieved by eliminating other diseases with similar symptoms. Once ALS is determined, a patient can expect to experience six stages of disease progression. Physical therapist assistants must be aware of each stage so that they can best treat their patient.
Parkinson’s is one that can affect the physical and mental ability of a child growing
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The film “Awakenings” was a hit film in 1990 and an award winning drama movie. The movie depicts a particular disease that was the Post encephalitis Parkinson’s disease and the drug that was L-Dopa medication that used to treat it very accurately and effectively. “Awakenings” was all about the victims of epidemic of encephalitis lethargica or Post encephalitis Parkinson’s disease. But a new doctor, Dr. Sayer discovered the L-Dopa medication to try to treat some patients that appear to be catatonic and offers the prospect to reviving them. Speculating that their rigidity may be analogous to a severe form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his sceptical superiors to treat patients
Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease is a rapidly progressive neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells (neurons) in charge of controlling voluntary muscles in the body. The disease is classified to a group of disorders known as motor neuron diseases. Lou Gehrig’s disease causes weakness with a broad assortment of disabilities that eventually cause all muscles under voluntary control to be affected. The patient will eventually lose their strength and not have the ability to move their arms, legs, or any other body part. When muscles in the diaphragm and chest wall fail, patients lose the ability to breathe without a ventilator for support.
There are no known causes for this illness in adults. It is believed that most adults diagnosed with this disorder use fire for financial gain, revenge, anger, expression of social or political ideas, improving his or her living conditions, responding to hallucinations, and impaired judgment. It is mostly studied in children and teens and still it is unclear what causes this dreadful disease. For most children, it is stated that antisocial behavior and attitudes, sensation and attention seeking, and lack of social skills are some of the causes. Psychiatrists use a SPECT scan (brain scan that also investigates Parkinson’s disease) to look for abnormalities of blood flow in the brain.