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Parkinson’s Disease — Psychological Analysis and Management
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) — Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is essentially regarded as a motor–neuro-degenerative disorder involving symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia (i.e. slowness of movement), balance, posture problems, micrographia (small handwriting).
Festinating gait and hypophonic speech. However, recent evidence suggests that there is more than motor symptoms when it comes to Parkinson’s Disease. It also involves many non-motor symptoms like decline in cognition and a range of psychological disorders comorbidity.
In simple word, this condition occurs due to changes in neurotransmitters in brain. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common chronic neuro-degenerative disorder in older people of more than 60 years of age.
Who first coined the term Parkinson’s Disease?
The term Parkinson’s Disease was first coined by William Sanders and the idea then picked by a French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. However, this term is very first attributed to James Parkinson who was a famous English surgeon, social and political activist, geologist, paleontologist, described its symptoms thoroughly using the term “paralysis agitans” in his famous essay Shaking Palsy in 1817.
