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88 unusual facts about Parkinson's disease


1822 in paleontology

James Parkinson (after whom the disease is named) publishes a general text on paleontology wherein he illustrates and describes teeth belonging to Megalosaurus.

Adieu False Heart

In light of her 2011 retirement announcement, and the revelation of her affliction with Parkinson's disease in 2013, which has left her unable to sing, this album is likely to be Linda's final release of new music.

Albert Field

He suffered from Parkinson's disease in later life, and died of asphyxiation from hanging in 1990, survived by a daughter and step-daughter.

Alex Josey

He later became the Publications Manager of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) before being crippled by Parkinson's disease.

Alex P. Keaton

Stewie also mentions the fact that Michael J. Fox has Parkinson's.

Annonacin

Some reports concluded that regular consumption in rats (3.8 and 7.6 mg per kg per day for 28 days) caused brain lesions consistent with Parkinson's disease.

Antanas Mockus

On 9 April 2010 he announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Bagadilico

The group’s ultimate goal is to find new therapies for Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.

Benserazide

It is used in the management of Parkinson's disease in combination with L-DOPA (levodopa) as co-beneldopa (BAN), under the brand names Madopar in the UK and Prolopa in Canada, both made by Roche.

Brain Research Foundation

Brain tumors, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Epilepsy, ALS, learning disorders, depression and many others are disorders the BRF has helped raise awareness for.

Brittany Underwood

In an interview with SOAPnet in 2010, Underwood said she was currently in college researching neuroscience, and such diseases as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Carbidopa

The use of carbidopa seems counter-intuitive in Parkinson's disease (PD) in that it prevents DDC conversion of levodopa/L-DOPA to dopamine.

Carbidopa is used in the treatment of, among other diseases, Parkinson's disease (PD), a condition characterized by death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.

Charles R. Erdman, Jr.

Erdman died in 1984 at his home in Princeton at the age of 87 after battling Parkinson's disease for several years.

Christian Haass

The emphasis of his work is in the molecular biology and cell biology of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Clinical Systems and Networks

The setting of objectives and the choice of criteria relating to the healthcare provided for a condition such as Parkinson Disease or Renal Failure has a number of benefits, notably

Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm

The monkeys are used scientific research, including gene therapy, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stem cells and antibody-based treatments.

Daniel Bekker

Bekker died on 22 October 2009 after a long struggle with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton

Dogged by illness for the latter 10 years of his life, he had suffered a stroke and was disabled by its effects and those of Parkinson's disease.

DiaGenic

The first products from DiaGenic are tests for the early diagnosis of breast cancer (BCtect) and Alzheimer's disease (ADtect), to be followed by a test for Parkinson's disease (PDtect).

Elena of Montenegro

She was deeply involved in her fight against disease, and she promoted many efforts for the training of doctors, and for research against poliomyelitis, Parkinson's disease and cancer.

Emperor Rosko

He stayed with Radio 1 until September 1976, when he left for America to re-join his father, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Eric Harrison

He died at Chatswood of Parkinson's disease and was survived by his wife and the three daughters of his first marriage.

Ernie Bushmiller

In 1979, Bushmiller was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but he continued to produce the strip with the help of assistants Will Johnson and Al Plastino.

Franz Schurmann

He died at age 84 on August 20, 2010, at his home in San Francisco due to complications of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Frederick B. Karl

In a 2010 news article, Karl told a reporter that he was suffering from heart disease along with a progressive form of Parkinson's disease and diabetes.

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate

Certain neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, have been linked to metal deposits with high iron content, although it is uncertain whether Fenton chemistry plays a substantial role in these diseases, or whether fructose 1,6-bis(phosphate) is capable of mitigating those effects.

Gas Huffer

At the conclusion of Girl Trouble's set, K.P. Kendall called Gas Huffer's Tom Price (who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease) to the stage and presented to him a "Certificate of Achievement".

George André Robertson

In 1991, health problems (such as Parkinson's disease) forced him to retire and he went to live in Surrey, where he died on 22 February 2007 at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill at the age of 77.

Glória Pires

In 2005, Glória's father died as an implication of Parkinson's disease.

Green glazed pottery of Atzompa

She was not able to work for the last years of her life due to Parkinson's disease and diminished sight.

H. R. Janardhana Iyengar

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the late 1970s, which was progressively debilitating.

Hamites

This James Parkinson is best known as the first scientific description of a disease he called the Shaking Palsy, now referred to as Parkinson's disease in his honour.

Harry Farjeon

Farjeon taught at the Academy for 47 years, despite developing Parkinson's disease in later life.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

There are over 120 Guidelines available on their website including ones in 2011 on early rheumatoid arthritis and in 2010 diabetes, obesity and Parkinson's disease.

Hoxton Square

James Parkinson (1755–1824), the physician and author of An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, the subject of which is now known as Parkinson's disease, was in practice at 1 Hoxton Square, which is commemorated with a blue plaque on the site.

Hy Lit

In the mid 1990s, it was revealed that Lit was suffering from the beginnings of Parkinson's disease.

Integration and Development Movement

Frigerio succeeded the ailing Frondizi (earlier diagnosed with Parkinson's disease) as President of the MID in 1986.

Jean Kasem

In October 2013, Kerri Kasem, one of Casey Kasem's three children from his first marriage, said her father was suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Jean-Louis Tauran

In spite of having Parkinson's disease, Tauran was appointed as president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on 25 June 2007, showing that the disease was not getting worse and he was able to handle more responsibility.

John Amsden Starkweather

Starkweather died March 10, 2001 at the age of 75 from complications of Parkinson's disease.

John Louis Mansi

After 'Allo 'Allo! ended in 1992, he retired from acting. He was often credited as Louis Mansi in his roles. For six years he suffered from Parkinson's disease and in May 2010 was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

John R. Meyer

He died on October 20, 2009 after a long period of battling with Parkinson's disease.

John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder

Near the end of his life he developed Parkinson's disease (the same affliction from which his father died).

Larry Whiteside

Whiteside developed Parkinson's disease early in the 21st century, which led to the end of his career with The Boston Globe in 2004.

Lee Baxandall

In 1995, Baxandall was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he retired from public life from 2002 until his death on November 28, 2008.

Low-threshold spikes

Therefore, much research has been conducted on low-threshold spikes in the neurons in the thalamus and how it could relate to Parkinson's disease and the corresponding loss of motor function.

Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine

Neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson's disease, metabolomics and disease network analysis are a primary focus.

LY-404,187

LY-404,187 has been demonstrated to enhance cognitive function in animal studies, and has also shown effects suggesting antidepressant action as well as having possible application in the treatment of schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and ADHD.

Menachem Shmuel David Raichik

Toward the end of his life Raichik suffered greatly from the debilitating Parkinson's disease, but refused to allow it to hamper his busy schedule.

Michal Kováč

On July 10, 2008 the Slovak media reported that Kováč probably suffers from Parkinson's disease.

Micheal O'Siadhail

She was for most of her life a teacher and later head mistress in an inner city Dublin primary school until her retirement in 1995 due to Parkinson's disease.

My Angel My Hero

The film tells the story of a young boy Billy (Dakim Wills), who is suffering from Parkinson's disease and dances in New York City subway and streets.

He eventually finds an inspiration by meeting a former Investment Banker, Da (Faizan Sheikh) and together they discover the advantages of dance towards Parkinson's disease.

The film echoes the sound of music and dance to heal Parkinson's disease, a disease caused by the deterioration of brain cells leading to tremors of the muscles in the body.

Nick Geraci

His injuries in the ring eventually lead to him developing Parkinson's disease.

Nike Mag

A limited quantity of 1,500 pairs were auctioned on eBay on September 8, 2011 and proceeds are currently being dedicated to the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research.

Nikol Faridani

Faridani died on 6 February 2008, after suffering from prostate cancer, pneumonia, and Parkinson's disease.

PARK11

PARK11 is a gene that has been associated with Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

Parkinson

Parkinson's disease, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system

Parkinson Association of the Rockies

The Parkinson Association of the Rockies (PAR) is a Colorado care and research not-for-profit organization whose aim is to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Parkinson's disease through education, research, awareness and support for those with Parkinson's disease, their families and the community.

Paul Montauk

Montauk's health declined over the last decade of his life and in his final few years Montauk was afflicted with Parkinson's disease and other infirmities, but he continued to make an active contribution to the SWP.

Rafael Caldera

His poor health caused by Parkinson's disease forced him to retire from politics during his last years.

Rankin Fite

He retired from politics in 1974 due to failing health, having suffered from Parkinson's disease prior to retiring.

Rick Shapiro

On April 25, 2013, Shapiro was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder that attacks the central nervous system.

Rita Kalmbach

She is the widow of German-born tobacco farmer Emil Kalmbach; Emil died from Parkinson's disease while on vacation in Mexico at the resort community of San Antonio Tlayacapan in 2009.

Rivastigmine

Rivastigmine (sold under the trade name Exelon) is a parasympathomimetic or cholinergic agent for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and dementia due to Parkinson's disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved rivastigmine capsules and patches for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and for mild to moderate dementia related to Parkinson's disease.

Robert E. Pearson

Pearson has had Parkinson's disease for nearly a decade, is blind in his right eye and legally blind in his left eye—plus he has been color-blind his entire life.

Rogelio Frigerio

Frigerio lost his friend, Arturo Frondizi, to Parkinson's disease in 1995, and his own health declined subsequently.

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam

Chelvanayakam health was increasingly poor; he had suffered from Parkinson's disease and growing deafness since the 1950s.

Safinamide

Safinamide (EMD 1195686) is a candidate drug against Parkinson's disease with multiple methods of action.

Sahib Singh

Ultimately, he became very ill, being afflicted with Parkinson's disease.

Saving Milly

The movie recounts his inspiring love story with his activist wife, Milly, and the dramatic change in their lives in the years after she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Shay Healy

In 2004, Healy was diagnosed with the degenerative disorder, Parkinson's disease.

Sheikh Hassan Enany

As well as treating cancer, the radio surgery technology has been used for treating Parkinson's disease.

Sholom Rivkin

Rivkin died on October 1, 2011, of complications from Parkinson's disease.

Spin City

After Fox left due to his battle with Parkinson's disease, Charlie Sheen took the reins as the show's lead Charlie Crawford.

Mike leaves the show at the end of season 4, after taking the hit for an unknown mob connection the Mayor had, (It is later revealed Michael J. Fox had Parkinson's disease) .

Tara Devi

After this tragedy, she became physically unfit and later was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

Suffering from Parkinson's disease and having already had several heart attacks, Burroughs visited the set of Tarzan and the Slave Girl during its production.

The Movement Disorder Society

The field of Movement Disorders includes the following areas: Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, ataxia, dystonia, chorea and Huntington's disease, tics and Tourette syndrome, myoclonus and startle, restless leg syndrome, stiff person syndrome, tremor and essential tremor, and gait disorders.

The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) is a professional society of clinicians, scientists, and other healthcare professionals who are interested in Parkinson's disease, related neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, hyperkinetic Movement Disorders and abnormalities in muscle tone and motor control.

The Silver Dream

However, Reaves, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, was unable to actually perform much work on the book; instead, he turned over the writing to his daughter Mallory, who completed the novel based on the outline worked up by Gaiman and the elder Reaves.

The Swedish Parkinson Academy

The main aim of the academy is to stimulate preclinical and clinical research related to Parkinson's disease, especially to support translational projects (projects bridging the border between preclinical and clinical research, bringing promising preclinical results to clinical studies).

Thorley Walters

Walters had starred with Terry in the Boulting Brother's film Carlton-Browne of the F.O., and was shocked at his appearance (he was ill with Parkinson's disease).

Tofenacin

In addition to its use as a pharmaceutical medication, tofenacin is the major active metabolite of orphenadrine and likely plays a role in its beneficial effects against depressive symptoms seen in Parkinson's disease patients.

Weird Tales

Wright (who suffered from Parkinson's disease) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird; he rejected Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and (initially) "The Call of Cthulhu", among other stories.


Agkistrodon bilineatus taylori

Elevated to species status by Parkinson, Zamudio and Greene (2000) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.

Andrea Parker

Parker supports various charities such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research and Project Angel Food.

Angus Reid

Reid missed three years of college football at Simon Fraser because of gastrointestinal problems linked to Crohn's disease but he played every CFL game from the 2002 to 2008 CFL seasons including the 92nd and 94th Grey Cups.

APOE

Apolipoprotein E, a main apoprotein of the chylomicron, also studied for its involvement in Alzheimer's Disease risk.

Arthur O'Connell

At the time of his death from Alzheimer's disease in California in May 1981, O'Connell was appearing by his own choice solely in these commercials.

ASAH2B

ASAH2B shows reduced expression with increasing age and further reduction in late onset Alzheimer's disease patients.

Bill Lawton

Lawton died in Brighton on 14 August 2008 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Bugula

In January 2008 a clinical trial was submitted to the United States National Institutes of Health to measure the safety and effectiveness of Bryostatin 1 in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

Burderop Park

Thomas was married to Elizabeth Keck, daughter of Anthony James Keck of Stoughton Grange; they had a son John James Calley, who sold the estate to John Parkinson, who held the estate as a trustee, for the Duke of Wellington.

Carol Carr

Carol Scott Carr (born 1939) is an American woman from the state of Georgia who became the center of a widely publicized debate over euthanasia when she killed her adult sons because they were suffering from Huntington's disease.

Cell therapy

Neural stem cells (NSCs) are the subject of ongoing research for possible therapeutic applications, for example for treating a number of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.

Center for BrainHealth

All contributions support the cause of brain health and the Center’s many research focus areas-Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Addiction, BrainHealth Physical, Dementia, Exercise and the Brain, Healthy Brain Aging, and Virtual Brain Training.

Cerlapirdine

Cerlapirdine (USAN; SAM-531, WAY-262,531, PF-05212365) is a drug which is under development by Wyeth/Pfizer for the treatment of cognitive disorders associated with Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

Charles Enrique Dent

He began research into a hereditary disease of the kidneys which was greatly expanded by his pupil Oliver Wrong and named Dent's disease.

Charles Stoneham

For several years before his death, Stoneham had been suffering from a variety of physical ailments which were eventually diagnosed as symptoms of Bright's disease.

Charles W. Morse

In 1912 Morse became ill, and a panel of Army doctors declared that he suffered from Bright's disease and other maladies and would soon die if he remained in prison.

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Hereditary Disease Foundation

In 1968, after experiencing Huntington's disease (HD) in his wife's family, Dr. Milton Wexler was inspired to start the Hereditary Disease Foundation, with the aim of curing genetic illnesses by coordinating and supporting research.

Hes3 signaling axis

:* Activation of the signaling pathway by Delta4, Angiopoietin 2, insulin, or a combination of the three and a JAK inhibitor induces motor skill improvements in adult rat models of Parkinson's disease (6-hydroxydopamine model).

Hyperkinesia

Hyperkinesia is a state of excessive restlessness which is featured in a large variety of disorders that affect the ability to control motor movement, such as Huntington's disease.

Ilene Strizver

Strizver was the Director of Typeface Development for International Typeface Corporation (ITC), where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw.

Joseph Jankovic

In 1977 he joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine and became a founder and director of the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, which has since been recognized as a "Center of Excellence" by the National Parkinson Foundation and the Huntington Disease Society of America.

Mieczysław Weinberg

Towards the end of his life, Weinberg suffered from Crohn's disease and remained housebound for the last three years, although he continued to compose.

Muscimol

In patients with Huntington's disease and chronic schizophrenia, oral doses of muscimol have been found to cause a rise of both prolactin and growth hormone.

Music therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Music therapy (MT) is one of the most common treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

On the assumption that MAP is a causative agent in Crohn's disease, the Australian biotechnology company Giaconda is seeking to commercialize a combination of rifabutin, clarithromycin, and clofazimine as a potential drug therapy, called Myoconda, for Crohn's.

Parkinson's law

In that episode, an undersecretary of the Department, played by Ian Lavender, explains to the Minister that a certain county "has the smallest establishment of social workers in the U.K."

Parkinson's Sunday Supplement

Between these features Parkinson would play what he termed "the very best in music" from the jazz and big-band genres, including such artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams.

Philippe Gaucher

Gaucher is remembered for his description of the disorder that was to become known as Gaucher's disease.

Protein losing enteropathy

Causes of protein losing enteropathy include celiac disease, Crohn's disease, short bowel syndrome (where the absorptive area for proteins is decreased), intestinal lymphangiectasia, amyloidosis, enteropathy caused by NSAIDs, Ménétrier's disease, dyskeratosis congenita, IPEX and giardiasis.

Robert L. Miller

In his last four years, Miller was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

Sacha Parkinson

In 2013 Sacha Parkinson appeared in Channel 4, four part drama The Mill portraying the role of Miriam Catterall The Mill.

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils, the latter related to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, are two examples of application where solid-state NMR spectroscopy complements solution-state NMR spectroscopy and beam diffraction methods (e.g. X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy).

Synaptic fatigue

Hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are impairment of cognition, aggregation of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ), neurofibrillary degeneration, loss of neurons with accelerated atrophy of specific brain areas, and decrease of synapse number in surviving neurons.

Thioflavin

The dye is widely used to visualize and quantify the presence of misfolded protein aggregates called amyloid, both in vitro and in vivo (e.g., plaques composed of amyloid beta found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients).

Victoria Glendinning

Her second husband Terence de Vere White died of Parkinson's disease in 1994 and in 1996 she married Kevin O'Sullivan.