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Parkinson's disease

NOUN
nervous system disorder
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Lena Ting of Emory University and her team set out to understand how aging and Parkinson's disease affect the way the brain and muscles respond when a person tries to regain balance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

His subjects ranged from L.A. politics to issues in higher education, U.S.-waged wars to Donald Trump to his long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Last year his family divulged that Mueller had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for several years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Together, the results provide biological evidence supporting a connection between chlorpyrifos exposure and Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the "shaking palsy," but known ever since as Parkinson’s disease.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson