YEAR 12 BIOLOGY DISEASE ASSIGNMENT PART A PARKINSON'S DISEASE Parkinson's disease was named after Scottish physician James Parkinson, who published a description of the condition, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in 1817. Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological condition that affects more than 30 000 people in Australia (it is the second most common degenerative neurological condition after Alzheimer's disease). Over the last decade, it's been given an especially high profile by celebrities who've been affected by it, …showed first 75 words of 1544 total…

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