In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing for the first time ...

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, ...

Michael J. Fox: Do you have Parkinson's? New test is 'breakthrough' in diagnosing disease. I’m involved with the work of The Michael J. Fox Foundation in many ways, but I come to this ...

The “real” James Parkinson died in 1824, fifteen years before the earliest form of photography—produced by the daguerreotype process—was developed. Excerpted from Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the ...

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 ...

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 relationship between Parkinson’s and breathing was noted as early as 1817, in the work of Dr. James Parkinson.

By the time James Parkinson formally described it in 1817, the illness had been known for centuries. When The New York Times first mentioned the ailment, on April 5, 1858, ...

THE devastating illness to which James Parkinson called attention in 1817 has received a good deal of attention in the past ten years. Pharmaceutical chemists have developed rather a large number o ...

Walking in the east London neighborhood of Shoreditch in the early 1800s, the physician James Parkinson noticed certain individuals who moved differently from the crowd. In 1817 he articulated ...

Rebecca Zhangqiuzi Fan, Florida International University and Kim Tieu, Florida International University. In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, ...