Of and by itself , no. but it leads to easily avoidable conditions in a healthy person. The patient who walked away in the snowstorm, and the guy who walked away from the house into the desert are only 2 of the people I can readily remember who died from exposure as a direct result of having parkinsons, but they didnt die of the disease itself. I might guess that if the person lived long enough that there would be no "brain" left.
Quote: And perhaps most recently we have come to suspect that when cells die in disorders like Parkinson's disease, they die through a process called apoptosis
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/...ories/s266.htm
From personal experience the person may be disoriented enough to walk around in the middle of a busy highway thinking he was having a party with his friends(friends that had been dead for up to 15 years before this event!).
The family members who must endure this themselves might have several debilitating problems directly caused by having to care for their parent uncle/aunt, etc...
Quote: Other than memory loss the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease are loss of communication skills, abstract thinking and judgement become impaired, disorientation to peroson, time and place, difficulty with mathmatical calulations, balancing the check book ect. One does not actually die of alzheimer's disease but rather they die from a condition related to the brain shutting down, often pneumonia. Remember that the brain's neurons are dying in the brain of a Alzheimer's patient, withoiut the brain functioning our other body systems shut down Sally : . . . . Wed, Nov 3, 7:11PM EST (-0500 GMT). . .
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http://www.minutemansenior.org/19991103.html
I wish you good luck on your speech.
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