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  • noun neurology, pathology Parkinson's syndrome.

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Examples

  • These so-called secondary dementias often present with other neurological signs in addition to dementia, such as parkinsonism, myoclonus, seizures, chorea, ataxia, and sensory signs.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • People who suffer from parkinsonism have many of the same symptoms but in a milder and usually undegenerative form.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Mayo Clinic researchers and a group of international collaborators have discovered a correlation between an extreme form of sleep disorder and eventual onset of parkinsonism or dementia.

    May 16th, 2007 2007

  • "Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism.

    ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing ccfinlay 2005

  • An article at the NPF site - Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's Disease (Part 1) (Part 2) - covers the documented evidence for Hilter's parkinsonism, as well as discussing alternative diagnoses.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Although it's now generally agreed that Hitler suffered from parkinsonism, it seems that it manifested earlier than is common for idiopathic parkinsonism (the usual adult-onset form).

    Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • At the medical-pharmaceutical-political blog Black Triangle this entry, Incurable tyrants, mentions an interesting historical diagnosis: that Adolf Hitler suffered from the long-term effects of encephalitis lethargica (aka 'sleepy sickness' or von Economo's encephalitis), whose delayed sequel was a severe syndrome of parkinsonism, memorably featured in the Oliver Sacks book and film Awakenings.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004

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