Sentences with phrase «called motor symptoms»

But in addition to so - called motor symptoms such as slowness of movement, tremor and stiffness, most people develop other health problems related to Parkinson's.

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The symptoms of Parkinson's — which is characterized by stiffness and can lead to a loss of motor and speech function — are triggered by the progressive death of neurons in a midbrain region called the substantia nigra that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine (implicated in the pleasure and reward systems as well as in the maintenance of proper movement control).

By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.

In EAE, as with MS, immune cells attack a nerve cell protein called myelin, causing symptoms ranging from impaired vision to severe motor dysfunction and even death.

Grillner had severed the cats» spines, rendering them paralyzed, and then injected them with an amino acid called L - dopa, routinely used to treat Parkinson's disease — a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by motor symptoms.

When we think of Parkinson's disease, we often focus on its motor symptoms, such as stiffness and trembling, which are caused by a gradual decrease in the dopamine supply to a brain area called the striatum, the primary input nucleus of the basal ganglia.

NMS actually usually appear earlier in PD than the motor symptoms do, but at that point they're so mild — and also so common in aging people — that they usually aren't recognized as the first signs of the pathology to come, but are instead put down to so - called «normal aging».