Parkinson's Disease: An Essay On The Shaking Palsy
Parkinson’s Disease Before 1817 Parkinson’s disease was called “Shaking Palsy.” James Parkinson wrote a medical essay on the disease entitled “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.” However, 60 years after, Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), a French neurologist, discovered the importance of Parkinson’s essay and renamed the disease after Parkinson’s (Goetz 1). Parkinson’s disease is a long-term degenerative neurological condition that affects a person’s ability to control his or her own body movements. The symptoms that are commonly linked to Parkinson’s disease are caused by the loss of nerve cells in the substantia nigra, which is in the middle of the brain. These nerve cells produce a chemical transmitter that is necessary for the body to produce
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He created The Mark Morris Dance Center, which houses the company, a school and community programs in Brooklyn, New York. He provided a home for his company, rehearsal space for the dance community, outreach programs for children and seniors, Wellness Center, a dance store, and a school offering dance classes to students of all ages and abilities http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/mark-morris. This marvelous headquarters gave future dancers an amazing opportunity to develop. Morris also created a notable work, the ballet A Garden. His company published Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration, a volume of photographs and critical essays http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/markmorris/. If that was not enough, Morris also started a collaboration with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group and his company forming an outstanding, well-known program called Dance for PD. Morris created a powerful piece called “V”, which debuted in New York around the attacks on September 11th. Audiences connected the piece to September 11, 2001, because of the “birdlike shapes the dancers made with their arms as they soared across the stage” (Kourlas). Morris dedicated this piece to the city of New
He created The Mark Morris Dance Center, which houses the company, a school and community programs in Brooklyn, New York. He provided a home for his company, rehearsal space for the dance community, outreach programs for children and seniors, Wellness Center, a dance store, and a school offering dance classes to students of all ages and abilities http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/mark-morris. This marvelous headquarters gave future dancers an amazing opportunity to develop. Morris also created a notable work, the ballet A Garden. His company published Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration, a volume of photographs and critical essays http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/markmorris/. If that was not enough, Morris also started a collaboration with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group and his company forming an outstanding, well-known program called Dance for PD. Morris created a powerful piece called “V”, which debuted in New York around the attacks on September 11th. Audiences connected the piece to September 11, 2001, because of the “birdlike shapes the dancers made with their arms as they soared across the stage” (Kourlas). Morris dedicated this piece to the city of New