INTRODUCTION In 1817, a London physician, named James Parkinson, wrote the first information of Parkinson’s disease in his “Essay of the Shaking Palsy.” Little research was done throughout the years. However, researchers at the University of Vienna brought hope in 1960, that restoring low dopamine levels might effectively treat the disease. Investigators soon learned that dopamine by itself was useless; it would be metabolized before reaching the brain. So, in 1970, levodopa was approved for prescription sale …showed first 75 words of 2074 total…

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