Thursday, March 24, 2011

What is Parkinson Disease?


What is Parkinson Disease? It is quite a dreaded word for some, but in plain english, it is a disorder of the nervous system.

The nervous system itself has the very important job of communication by way of impulses to control the body's hundreds of functions to keep it alive and healthy. During the communication process, chemical substances called neurotransmitters are released to pass “messages” to their destination. An easy way to relate to that is by looking at people's traditional form of communication. When we speak, we emit sound waves. Those sound waves, in turn, are intercepted by the ear which translates the meaning of the sound waves. One way that the nervous system communicates is through those chemicals called neurotransmitters.

In the case of Parkinson Disease, certain parts of the brain have a deficiency of (for full article go to: http://www.getrevitalizednow.com/Rouse/article/parkinson-disease