Assignment 3:

Essential and Foundation Questions

Essential Question: What are the major implications of Parkinson's Disease and what should be done to ensure that there is a cure?


Foundation Questions:

1.) What is 'Parkinson's Disease'?

2.) Who is at risk for Parkinson's?

3.) In what ways can this disease be treated?

4.) What are the symptoms of PD?

5.) What genes are linked to PD?

6.) What is the prognosis of Parkinson's?

7.) How does this disease effect the body?

8.) What foundations are trying to find a cure for Parkinson's?

Assignment 2:

10 Facts about Parkinson's:

• Age, gender and family history are all risk factors (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• There is no cure (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• Some types of treatment are drugs, exercise, physical therapy and nutrition (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• There is no prevention for PD (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• PD usually develops in adults over the age of 50 (Parkinson disease research)
• PD was named after an English physician geologist, James Parkinson (Parkinson disease)
• Termors, slow movements and muscle ridgity are symptoms (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• PD is diagonised by a neurological exam (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
• Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system (Parkinson's disease reasearch)
• Sympthoms of Parkison's are mainly known as "Parkinsonism" (wikipedia.org)

Assignment 1

My Graduation Project is about Parkinson's disease. So far I only know the basics of this disease such as the definition, symptoms, types of treatment and the physical effects it has on patients.