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In his original article in 1817, James Parkinson (Parkinson 1817) theorized that the disease that bears his names was caused by stress, an argument that may still have some merit today. James Parkinson 9 described the characteristics of the disease which was later to bear his name. First described by the English physician James Parkinson in 1817, the condition kills the nerve cells in the brain that release dopamine, a chemical necessary for controlling movements. |
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