In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing for the first time cases of a neurodegenerative disorder now known as Parkinson's disease.

When the British surgeon James Parkinson first described “shaking palsy” in 1817, he did so by looking at the way patients’ bodies moved. Two centuries on, most specialists seeking to ...

Parkinson’s disease may still be as vexing as it was in James Parkinson’s day, but thanks to ongoing research and awareness, its days may be numbered. “We’re not there yet,” says Beck.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that primarily affects the ability to control body movement and causes a variety of deterioration of function—named after Dr. James ...

Jim Parkinson, the designer behind Rolling Stone's iconic logo, has died at 83 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, his ...

THE devastating illness to which James Parkinson called attention in 1817 has received a good deal of attention in the past ten years. Pharmaceutical chemists have developed rather a large number o ...

IN a paper on the subject of museums, which was read in 1891 before the meeting of an association, James Parkinson is thus spoken of without any subsequent qualification of the statement made ...

Rebecca Zhangqiuzi Fan, Florida International University and Kim Tieu, Florida International University. In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, ...