A 64-year-old woman complains of loss of balance and urinary retention in the past few months. Your examination reveals an akinetic-rigid state. The patient has masked facies, cogwheel rigidity, brisk ...

PARKINSON'S disease symptoms develop slowly over a long time and could be caused by nerve damage in the brain. One of the more common warning signs of the condition is known as bradykinesia. What is ...

PARKINSON'S disease involves certain nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down or die. Many of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease are due to a loss of neurons which produces a chemical ...

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease result from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, new and unusual chronic sequelae of the disease are cropping up in many medical practices. Now, a new case paper published in The Lancet in September 2020 ...