In the United States there are over one million people affected with Parkinson's disease alone. There are twenty new cases of the disease reported for every one hundred thousand people per year. The depletion of the chemical dopamine is found to be the primary cause of Parkinson's disease. The symptoms of Parkinson's are a direct result of dopamine depletion. Although the cause of Parkinson's is unknown there are many theories on its etiology.(Calne, 1993 p.1021)

Parkinson's Disease was first described in an essay on "The Shaking Palsy", published in1817 by James Parkinson, a London physician. Symptoms of the disease date back as far as 5000 B.C. James Parkinson documented many of the symptoms associated with the disease and this is how the disease bears it's name.(Love, 2002 p.138)

Parkinson's Disease is classified as a chronic disease that is associated with Basal Ganglia deterioration within the brain.(love, 2002 p138) This degeneration creates

shortage of the brain-signaling chemical known as dopamine causing impaired movement.Parkinson's disease occurs when certain nerve cells, or neurons, in an area of the brain known a

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