Usually, Parkinson disease starts after 50 years, and, unfortunately, most common disease of nervous system in this age. Sometimes young people can be sick too, but usually it is because Parkinson disease rum in family. It affects both men and women. Also, children can have Parkinson disease, because of non-sensitive to dopamine. Fortunately, this disease is rare in children. To control muscle movements our nerve cells use chemical in our brain called “dopamine”. The Parkinson disease is actually slowly destroying these cells, so we can’t control our body anymore because our brain does not receiving messages from our nerve system. The situation gets worse with time. Exactly reason why these brain cells waste away is still unknown. The term "parkinsonism" refers to any condition that involves the types of movement changes seen in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism can also be caused by some medications. Thanks “The New York Time” for information.
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/parkinsons-disease/overview.html
I am convinced how complex our organism one more time. I mean, because of lack only one chemical in our brain we can get this disease. This is showing us how important every element in our body. I am pretty sure that humanity still does not know all disease, just like about our organism. Parkinson disease is one more example of this. After this article I found one very impressing movie called “Awakenings”. It is very sad story about patients who have Parkinson disease. I am very advising you to watch this movie. This is a trailer of this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FURflBxeTyI .
09/30/2011
Ilya Zaretskiy.