Comments on: Are pesticides causing Parkinson’s disease? http://eartheasy.com/blog/2009/06/are-pesticides-causing-parkinson%e2%80%99s-disease/ Articles on topics about sustainable living. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lilly Walcott http://eartheasy.com/blog/2009/06/are-pesticides-causing-parkinson%e2%80%99s-disease/comment-page-1/#comment-33061 Lilly Walcott Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:09:00 +0000 http://www.eartheasy.com/blog/?p=897#comment-33061 The disease of Parkinson is a neurodegenerativo process of the extrapiramidal system that approximately affects 1% of the greater people of 50 years. The Parkinson was discovered for the first time by the English doctor James Parkinson in 1817. Between his more important clinical characteristics it appears depression, anxiety, muscular rigidity, slowness in the corporal movements, the postural instability and the face inexpressiveness.

Causes:

The disease of Parkinson this caused by the death or deterioration of certain neurons, in an area of the well-known brain like substance nigra. These neurons produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter in charge to transmit signals between the substance nigra and corpus striatum, being mediated therefore a good muscular activity.

The reduction in the dopamine production causes in the patients and incapacity to direct or to control its movements of normal form, had al uncontrolled of the nervous cells of striatum. The studies have demonstrated that the patients of Parkinson have a loss of 80% or more of the producing dopamine cells in the substance nigra. The cause of this death or cellular deterioration is not known.

Lilly Walcott

]]> By: eve http://eartheasy.com/blog/2009/06/are-pesticides-causing-parkinson%e2%80%99s-disease/comment-page-1/#comment-724 eve Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:01 +0000 http://www.eartheasy.com/blog/?p=897#comment-724 Usually the old has a Parkinson.Why does this case is only 32 years old?

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