New Test Identifies Parkinson’s Before Symptoms Develop
Currently, more than 10 million individuals are affected by Parkinson’s disease around the world. This degenerative condition affects an individual’s nervous system and damages parts of the brain that control movement, causing involuntary shaking and stiff muscles as well as balance problems. In addition to this, the disease also affects a patient’s mental health, causing anxiety and depression, insomnia and memory issues. With the disease’s prevalence, there is an urgent need to develop better preventative strategies and treatments. This has proven difficult, particularly given researchers’ inability to identify individuals at risk of the illness while its in the early stages.…