Besides its primary symptoms, there are a number of complications associated with Parkinson’s disease. Many of these can be alleviated with proper treatment, or avoided altogether.
Depression
About half the people with Parkinson’s disease are also diagnosed with depression. In many of them, the depression can occur months or years before Parkinson’s is diagnosed. While [...]

Few diseases can claim rank with Parkinson’s Disease in duration, and in sheer ability to cripple.
It is one purpose of this article to reveal to people, for perhaps the first time, some of the more salient facts about this formidable and tragic affliction, in the hope that their dissemination will stimulate further therapeutic effort [...]

A strange phenomenon exists in conjunction with the peculiar gait, and that is a similar type of speech. Just as the legs appear to be literally running away with the individual, so does the tongue when he attempts to speak. The result is a marked slurring of his words, a lack of proper enunciation, a [...]

The two major symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, stiffness and trembling, are by no means its only features of importance. Nor are these both invariably present in every patient. There are patients, indeed, who do not tremble at all, but are extremely rigid.
There are others whose muscles are not all stiff or rigid, but who [...]

Human nature being what it is, most individuals do not fully appreciate the blessings of sound physical function until the function has been lost. No more profound realization of this truth is visited upon mortal man, perhaps, than that which gradually becomes apparent to the Parkinsonian patient as, one by one, he loses his physical [...]

It may seem surprising in this day of widespread medical publicity the story of a major disease should have remained essentially untold. Yet such has been the unfortunate truth in the case of one of civilization’s oldest and most disabling afflictions—the "shaking palsy" of Biblical times, the Parkinson’s Disease of today. 
Even the victims of this [...]

Parkinson’s Disease, once known as shaking palsy, or paralysis agitans, is one of the oldest disorders known to medical science, and one that until the twentieth century was not treated with marked or substantial improvement. Its two most dramatic symptoms—a progressive and highly disabling stiffening of the muscles, and a unique and uncontrollable trembling that [...]