Reply To: “Brain storms” by Jon Palfreman (Year 2)

[Anonymous]

It’s really interesting what is inside of people’s brains who struggled with Parkinson’s disease. This is not just a problem with “shaking hands”, but also with tremor all body (especially hands and head), rigidity, slowness of movement and postural imbalance. Through this book I found out that people who struggling with Parkinson they have difficulty with facial expression.In “Brain Storms” author mentioned Birkmayer who gave to the patients L-dopa and they started to perform activities like walking, smiling like a healthy people. Birkmayer documented some of this cases and he presented them before the Medical Society in Vienna, so I decided to find this video, because I wanted to see how this people started walking after this how before they couldn’t. Unfortunately I didn’t find the original video but I came across on other video also with Walther Birkmayer, when he showed his idea how to beat Parkinson. If someone of you is interested, I put a link here:

And I want to add that when I was younger and know that Parkinson’s exists I didn’t realized that this causes death. I found out when my classmate from middle school told me that her grandfather had died because of Parkinson’s. I wonder how many poeple may not know that this disease is fatal.