About Your Health: National Parkinson´s Awareness Month
(WorldNews Health)

The Michael J. Fox Foundation defines Parkinson´s disease (PD) as a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects one in 100 people over age 60. While the average age at onset is 60, people have been diagnosed as young as 18. We understand Parkinson´s disease to be a disorder of the central nervous system that results from the loss of cells in various parts of the brain, including a region called the substantia nigra. The substantia nigra cells produce dopamine, a chemical...