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)
This is really good. I learned about the Age, gender and family history are all risk factors (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)
ReplyDeleteTheses are really interesting facts about Parkinson Disease. I didnt know that that it was named after James Parkinson.
ReplyDeleteThese are some great facts about Parkinson Disease and i didn't know that gender, age, and family history are all risk factors.
ReplyDeleteThese are good and are nicely detailed. I like that you added the citations.
ReplyDeleteYou have some nice facts. I see PD as i disease that no one thinks about until they have it or someone they know has it.
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