MANAGEMENT OF PARKINSON 'S DISEASE

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative illness that is frequently associated with motor symptoms such as bradykinesia stiffness resting tremor and postural instability. Based on clinical characteristics and the patient's reaction to dopamine medication it is usually diagnosed in the sixth or seventh decade of life. Although the precise etiology is still unknown it is most likely the result of a genetic and environmental cocktail that kills dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra.