Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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)

5 comments:

  1. This is really good. I learned about the Age, gender and family history are all risk factors (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Parkison's Disease)

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  2. Theses are really interesting facts about Parkinson Disease. I didnt know that that it was named after James Parkinson.

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  3. These are some great facts about Parkinson Disease and i didn't know that gender, age, and family history are all risk factors.

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  4. These are good and are nicely detailed. I like that you added the citations.

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  5. You 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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