Understanding Parkinson's Disease: A Reader’s Guide

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Parkinson's Disease is the most common movement. disorder and one of the dreaded diseases to affect mankind. This book lucidly educates the patients and their caregiver on issues pertaining to seeking medical help for early recognition, causal factors, danger signals, diagnostic methods of identifying Parkinson's Disease etc. It provides useful information on treatment and management of patients with Parkinson's Disease involving drugs and other methods. It also focuses on the issue of caregiving and guides on precautions and interventions need to be taken while dealing with Parkinson's Disease. Though intended mainly to educate the lay reader, the book will be of use to paramedics too.

Dr Kuljeet Singh Anand currently holds the position of Professor and Head in the Department of Neurology at PGIMER and Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi. Engaged in clinical practice for more than three decades, Dr Anand's professional training in Neurology (Doctorate in Medicine- DM, Neurology) training was accomplished from National Institute of Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru. Closely associated with some of the pioneering Neurosciences centres in India, Dr Anand has contributed numerous articles and abstracts on various aspects of Neurology to many peer-reviewed prestigious journals. He has also contributed research articles in various books and monograms.

Dr Rohit Verma is working in the capacity of an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt.S.K. Hospital, New Delhi after completing his MD (Physiology) from AIIMS, New Delhi.

PARKINSON'S disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative PAR disorder. Generally this is a problem of adult age, but it may occur at any age. The severity of disease makes the victim almost unable to perform his/her daily life activities.

This book is written in a simple language and is filled with easy-to-understand explanations of all of the major issues a person with PD (and his/her family) must confront: What is PD? Who gets it and why? What are the early to late symptom manifestations? How is the diagnosis made? What are the variants of classical PD like young onset PD and other Parkinsonian syndromes. What are the treatments available? Which treatments are most effective and why? There is even some very easy-to-understand sections on how the brain works the parts of the brain for the understanding of relevant PD. There is also special material on diet, exercise and alternative therapies that can help and hinder the person with PD and much else besides.

The book covers many practical concerns of PD patients and their families from prognosis, to diet, to travel and finally how to deal with disability.