parkinsonism, the name for a group of disorders with similar features. These disorders share the four primary symptoms described above, and all are the result of the loss of dopamine producing brain cells. Parkinson's disease is also called primary parkinsonism or idiopathic Parkinson's disease; idiopathic is a term describing a disorder for which no cause has yet been found. In the other forms of parkinsonism either the cause is known or suspected or the disorder occurs as a secondary effect of another, primary neurological disorder.
             Currently the prognosis is simple and bleak. Although the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease may be slowed down, the disease has eventually killed every person ever afflicted with it. To the best of my knowledge and research, no person has ever been cured.
             More often than not a person afflicted with this disease dies from something else. The disease has such profound effects on the mind and the body that complications always arise. If a person with Parkinson's Disease does not die from something else, they eventually die from one or more organs systems shutting down. Although Parkinson's Disease primarily effects the voluntary muscle systems, but in advanced cases interferes with the smooth muscles associated with the heart, lungs, and digestive tract.
             In most cases of Parkinson's disease, evidence of the disease begins with a tremor in the hand when at rest. This decreases when the hand is moving purposefully and can stop completely when resting. Although shaking begins in one hand,
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