| Parkinson's disease (vorum tremens) is the chronic | | | | * Loss of balance. Parkinson's disease, especially in a |
| progressing disease of a brain for the first time was | | | | heavy condition, it is often accompanied by inability |
| described in 1817 by J. Parkinson. Patients who has | | | | to keep balance. For many years this problem |
| Parkinson's disease often suffer from involuntary | | | | remains insignificant and does not cause discomfort. |
| trembling finitenesses (tremor), muscular rigidity, | | | | * Loss of automatism of movements. Blinking, |
| infringements of coordination and speech, and also | | | | occurrence of a smile and flourish hands at walking - |
| experience difficulties with movement. These | | | | automatic actions of a normal organism which are |
| symptoms usually occurs after 60 years though | | | | carried out at a subconscious level and even besides |
| cases of Parkinson's disease are known in the age of | | | | our desire. At patients with Parkinson's disease this |
| 50 years are more younger. | | | | automatism of movements often vanishes, and and |
| Parkinson's disease is a progressing disease, i.e. its | | | | sometimes and disappears absolutely. In some cases |
| symptoms and appearance eventually become | | | | on the person of patients expression of the |
| aggravated and worsen. However, in spite of the | | | | steadfast and intense attention, a unblinking sight is |
| fact that finally Parkinson's disease leads to physical | | | | fixed. At some patients, except for a mimicry, ability |
| inability and loss of capacity, disease progresses | | | | to gesticulation vanishes also. |
| slowly, and even after statement of the diagnosis | | | | * Infringement of an articulation. Many patients also |
| the majority of patients as early as long years can | | | | suffer from infringement of speech - it can become |
| conduct a high-grade life. | | | | slightly modulated, illegible. The voice loses intonations |
| Moreover, unlike other serious neurological diseases, | | | | and becomes monotonous and silent. For older people |
| Parkinson's disease gives in to treatment. Often | | | | it represents a special problem, as badly hearing |
| resort to medicamentous treatment, or implant in a | | | | elderly co-habitants can simply not hear them. |
| brain the special device stimulating brain activity. In | | | | * Infringement of swallowing and salivation. This |
| extreme cases resort to surgical intervention - | | | | symptom appears at late stages of development of |
| operations on a brain a method stereotaxis which | | | | illness, but, with rare exception, patients with this |
| essence consists in destruction of a small zone in | | | | symptom nevertheless are capable to accept food |
| subcrustal structures of a brain. Searches of | | | | independently. |
| effective means of treatment of Parkinson's disease | | | | * Dementia. The insignificant percent of patients |
| now proceed. | | | | suffers from dementia - inability to think, understand |
| Symptoms of Parkinson's disease | | | | and remember. This symptom also appears at recent |
| The first symptoms of Parkinson's disease is difficult | | | | stages of disease. Though dementia consider as |
| to notice, as, for example, an immovability of hands | | | | display of Alzheimer's disease is more often, it can |
| at walking, an easy tremor in fingers of one hand or | | | | accompany and other serious diseases, including |
| insignificant infringements of speech. Patients feel a | | | | Parkinson's disease. In this case delay of thought |
| devastation, a breakdown, depressions are subject | | | | processes and inability attests to the beginning of |
| or suffer from a sleeplessness. Besides habitual | | | | dementia to concentrate. |
| employment (a shower, shaving, cooking, etc.) | | | | Reasons of occurrence of Parkinson's disease |
| require major efforts and borrow more time. | | | | For those 200 years that have passed from the |
| Other symptoms of Parkinson's disease | | | | moment of opening Parkinson's disease, scientists |
| * Tremor. The tremor often begins with easy | | | | were possible to understand some aspects and |
| trembling hands or even separate fingers. Sometimes | | | | processes of this most complicated disease. |
| the tremor of hands is accompanied by the | | | | Today it is known, that many symptoms and displays |
| non-uniform movement of the big and average | | | | of Parkinson's disease develop owing to damage or |
| fingers reminding overrolling of invisible pills (so-called | | | | destruction of the certain nervous terminations, |
| "a syndrome of driving of pills"). Sometimes there is | | | | located in black substance of a brain. In a normal |
| also a tremor of the bottom finitenesses. These | | | | condition these nervous cells develop dopamine. |
| symptoms can be more expressed on one party of | | | | Function of dopamine consists in smooth transfer of |
| a body or be shown symmetrically and to be | | | | impulses for maintenance of normal movements. At |
| combined with other symptoms of defeat of | | | | Parkinson's disease production of dopamine |
| nervous system. the Tremor is especially shown by | | | | decreases, normal transfer of nervous impulses is |
| infringements of coordination, sensitivity, when the | | | | broken and there are basic symptoms of Parkinson's |
| patient is in a condition of stress. Though the tremor | | | | disease. |
| of finitenesses causes significant inconveniences, it | | | | During ageing all people lose some part developing of |
| does not lead to loss of capacity and disappears only | | | | dopamine neutrons. But patients with Parkinson's |
| when the patient sleeps. Many patients with | | | | disease lose more than half of the neutrons located |
| Parkinson's disease suffer only from an insignificant | | | | in black substance. Though there is a degeneration |
| tremor. | | | | and other cells of a brain, the cells developing of |
| * Slowness of movement (bradykinesia). In due | | | | dopamine, are necessary for movement, therefore |
| course Parkinson's disease "acquires" new symptoms, | | | | their loss is catastrophic. The reasons of damage or |
| among which slowness and awkwardness of | | | | destruction of these cells till now is object of many |
| movements, as well as infringement of coordination. | | | | researches. In opinion of scientists, Parkinson's |
| Rigidity of muscles of legs can complicate movement, | | | | disease can develop owing to an adverse |
| gait is broken. It especially annoyingly as complicates | | | | combination of genetic and external factors. The |
| performance of the elementary actions. | | | | certain medicines, illnesses and toxic substances also |
| * Rigidity of muscles. Often there is a rigidity of | | | | can create a clinical picture, characteristic for |
| muscles of neck and finitenesses. In some cases | | | | Parkinson's disease. |
| rigidity even holds down movements and hurts. | | | | |