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Parkinson's Disease/PBS Video

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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Parkinsons Disease/PBS Video Research Compiled  By - May, 2011 properly! In 2008, journalist Dave Iverson reported in  an episode of Frontline on Parkinsons disease, which has a very personal significance for him because Iverson is himself a Parkinsons patient. The most significant topics discussed in this PBS  video, in the opinion of this writer/tutor, are the progressive nature of this disease; the role of genetics and environmental toxins in regards to Parkinsons; the possibility of new treatments  and stem cell research and the political controversy that this research entails. The video establishes that Parkinsons is a progressive disease, which is characterized by degenerative nerve damage that  typically begins slowly, but has the power to eventually cripple and incapacitate victims, leaving them prisoners within their paralyzed bodies. There is, at present, no known cure, but science over  the last several decades has uncovered a great deal of information about its origins and new treatments are being developed. At one time, science did not know that there was  a genetic components to Parkinsons, but over the last decade, six different genes have been found that are now associated with the development of the disease (Iverson, 2008). Using this  information, genetic researchers have traced the disease to ancient Carthage in Africa, from which it was subsequently carried to the coast of Norway, which is the ancestral home of Iverson  (Iverson, 2008). Scientist Matthew Farrer describes the problem with the LRRK2 gene, which is associated with Parkinsons, as analogous to having a "faulty doorway," rather like a door that is