Raising Awareness of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's Disease
Over two hundred years since Parkinson’s disease was first described by James Parkinson in 1817, there is still no cure for this incredibly disabling illness. The progressive neurological condition affects about 145,000 people in the UK, with estimates of up to 14 million people worldwide. Not only is there no cure, but the primary treatment, the dopamine-replacement therapy Levodopa, was first developed over 50 years ago.