Monday, April 30, 2012

Parkinson’s disease


Parkinson’s disease which is also known as Parkinsonism is a clinical state where human body is undergoing severe tremor at a rate of 3 to 8 tremors per second. This affects different body parts and muscles. A related term is dyskinesia which is nothing but disordered movements of voluntary or involuntary muscles. Most of these movements can be seen in disorders of the extra pyramidal system. If anything causes an impairment of the ability to read, the state is known as dyslexia. If bone formation is defective, it is known as dysostosis. Alzheimer’s disease is a special type of disease which causes memory loss.  It is actually a progressive neurodegenerative disease where some nerve cells in brain fails to function or gets killed. This causes senile dementia. Many of these types of diseases are age related and may appear during old age days.

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