2022 will commemorate 205 years since James Parkinson wrote his "Essay on the Shaking Palsy." Parkinson had a wide variety of interests, and his effect went beyond medicine, even though he is now ...

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.

The first detailed description of Parkinson’s disease, published in 1817 by British physician James Parkinson, is a harrowing read.Based on his observation of six cases, Parkinson found that a ...

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.

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 ...

Going all the way back to 1817, when James Parkinson first described the disease in the scientific literature, it’s been a clinically defined condition.

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 ...

Parkinson's disease, named after him, is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's. To date, there is no causal treatment for Parkinson's syndrome—only symptoms can be ...

Parkinson’s disease was formally recognized in an 1817 paper, “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy,” by James Parkinson, a London apothecary-surgeon and member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

JAMES PARKINSON was many things: apothecary, surgeon, scientist, political radical, closet heretic. Today, most people know his name solely through the disease that immortalised it. A shame ...

A new MIT-developed artificial intelligence model can make an early detection of Parkinson’s Disease — which is notoriously hard to diagnose — from a person’s breathing patterns, the ...