Constipation is technically defined as having less than 3 bowel movements per week but reality is that everyone differs in their normal frequency. Some may ...

Although James Parkinson first wrote a passage describing the movement disorder which we now know as Parkinson’s Disease in 1817, it wasn’t until the mid 195...

A physician examines a patient and finds him to have slow movement, poor energy, insomnia and weight loss. Does this patient have depression? According to t...

Mood disorders are not an uncommon issue as those of us that live with the challenge of Parkinson’s can attest to. Not only does a mood disorder result in ad...

They are no longer able to look after the finances without you checking the numbers over again or go to the grocery store to pick up the milk you forgot to g...

So you’ve noticed that the words don’t come as easily now. You see someone who looks familiar or you are looking for something particular at the grocery stor...

Dementia, a known complication in Parkinson’s disease, is estimated to occur in 21 – 37% of patients. Can we predict who will be affected by this difficult c...

In the past, many descriptions of Parkinson’s disease didn’t mention pain as being a significant symptom, the standard explanations usually focusing on the m...

Parkinson’s disease manifests in many ways above and beyond the more commonly known motor symptoms. Estimated to occur in close to 80% of all patients with t...

Sleep disturbance is in fact, a very common symptom for those with Parkinson’s Disease with close to 80% suffering from this difficulty. There is not one bu...

Problems with the gastrointestinal tract have been long recognized as part of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. In fact in James Parkinson’s first descri...

Dysphagia means essentially difficulty in swallowing and is a fairly common symptom in Parkinson’s disease. Patients report dysphagia anywhere from 30% to o...

When James Parkinson first described the shaking palsy now known as Parkinson’s disease in 1817, he stated that there was “the absence of injury to the sense...

One of the issues that makes Parkinson’s such a complicated disease is the fine balance between treating the symptoms of the disease while minimizing the sid...

Parkinson's disease ranks among the most common late-life neurodegenerative diseases, affecting approximately 1.5% to 2.0% of the population older than age 6...

The classic motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease – bradykinesia, resting tremor and rigidity are still used as diagnostic markers in determining whether a p...

Although tremor is a very common symptom in Parkinson’s Disease it only one of many issues faced by those that live with the challenge of this illness. But ...