Parkinson’s disease is familiar with people nowadays. When talking about Parkinson’s, an impression may appear in people’s minds, patients can not stop shaking their hands and have difficulties on walking and movement. It is true but it is way more than that impression. Parkinson’s disease is likely to be the progressive degeneration of human body’ function. There is not only age difference, but also difference between male and female (ratio is 1.2:1) that man is more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The low level of dopamine production is the one of those complex causes of Parkinson’s disease and also its motor symptoms. Despite the fact that there is no cure for the Parkinson’s right now, but are there any possibilities that …show more content…
The most common motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are tremor at rest, rigidity, problem walking, postural instability and so on. However, those symptoms occur in the later stage of Parkinson’s disease.
As mentioned above, Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative dysfunction of human body and the central nervous system. If patient is diagnosed in the moderate and severe stage of Parkinson’s, the situation has been gone too far. If we can identify the disease earlier, we can have more control on the disease and stop it from worsening. It draws people’s attention to the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s that occurs across all stages of Parkinson’s disease. Nevertheless, non-motor symptoms are not obvious to be the manifestation of Parkinson’s. Moreover, those symptoms can identify other diseases beside Parkinson’s.
The non-motor symptoms include depression/anxiety, cognitive impairment/dementia, nausea and vomiting, insomnia and ansomia. The non-motor symptom has the highest approximate prevalence is ansomia (90%). For the others symptoms, they are not the determined evidences to diagnose Parkinson’s disease. Plus, many non-motor symptoms are non-dopaminergic (Chaudhuri, Healy, Schapira, 2006) . Consequently, the most common and tranditional characteristic of Parkinson’s is not able to identify the