Archive for April 22nd, 2010

What Are the Causes of Parkinson’s disease?

Parkinson’s disease is chronic and progressive. The question now here is what causes this disease. The symptoms and not actually the disease itself are cause by a loss of nerve cells (dopaminergic cells) in the substantia nigra, a part of the brain. Dopamine as produced by the dopaminergic cells, is a neurotransmitter that helps transmit [...]