10 April 2008

Cause for Parkinson's disease

The degenerative disorder of central nervous system that habitually impedes the victim’s motor skills and speech is widely known as Parkinson’s disease. This condition collectively belongs to the movement disorders. Symptoms of this disease include decreased stimulation of the motor cortex by the basal ganglia, normally caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine, which is produced in the dopaminergic neurons of the brain. Secondary symptoms may include high level cognitive dysfunction and subtle language problems. PD is both chronic and progressive. Happiest information that has struck the world is those scientists have discovered the brain cells that are accountable for triggering this disease. This would open the door for future treatment of this disease including the chance of growing new neurons and cells that support it. In future this will lead to the advent of new therapies that uses precursor cells derived from patients own stem cells. This will perhaps stimulate the augmentation of replacement neurons which can be transplanted into the brain to reinstate the neurons they have lost.

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