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What Is Parkinson’s disease? Part 1
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease, rare before age 45, affecting 1.5% of the population over 65 years, reaching as many men as women. The fundamental lesion is the degeneration of a certain type of neurons: dopaminergic neurons.
These neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter substance of the nervous system. It occurs particularly in terms of neurons responsible for controlling body movements. There in Parkinson’s disease dopamine deficiency in the brain and this is manifested by movement disorders. Read the rest of this entry »
Criteria Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosos
As in most autoimmune diseases of unknown etiology, diagnosis is established on the basis of “criteria” which, according to the number that are present, will generate the EM categories of possible, probable and definite.
Schumacher criteria for diagnosing MS are:
1. “Two separate symptoms of central nervous system.
2. “Two separate outbreaks (between the debut and the second outbreak at least one month).
3. “Symptoms that should involve the white matter.
4. -Age of onset of 20-40 years.
5. Objectified-neurological deficit on physical examination.
6. “No other satisfactory medical explanation for this clinical picture.
The key criterion is in the first two points: two lesions separated in time and space. Read the rest of this entry »