Essays on Parkinson'S Disease

It is estimated that 145,000 people suffer from Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the UK (1), with this figure predicted to rise by approximately 20% by 2025. PD is a chronic neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure (2). It is caused by the death...

The Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the common neurodegenerative disorders which can also be induced by administration of antipsychotic drugs while treating positive symptoms of schizophrenia. The motor disorders like dyskinesia, rigidity and tremors can also result from chronic administration of neuroleptic drugs. The...

My case involves a 74 year old male, a former successful member of the corporate world, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and initially was confined to a wheelchair. He also had a history of bipolar disorder and depression which inhibited his enthusiasm to participate...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is recognized to have a wide range of non-motor features that include cognitive functions. Evidence currently shows that a slight decline in cognition can enhance the changeover to dementia in Parkinson’s disease. This does not necessarily mean that patients who have Parkinson’s...

Love and Other Drugs is a 2010 romantic comedy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Randall, a drug representative for Pfizer. Set in the year 1992, Randall’s mission is to convince doctors to prescribe the antidepressant Zoloft rather than Prozac, the drug which is currently dominating...

It is estimated that in the United States, 60,000 individuals are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease each year and that as many as 1 million Americans have Parkinson’s disease (VanMeter, K. C. & Hubert, R. J. , 2018). This specific disease has a defectiveness of the...