A disruption in the production of alpha synuclein has recently been discovered as the cause of this disease.  
A disruption in the production of alpha synuclein has recently been discovered as the cause of this disease.  One type of it is common among the Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands, while another variety was frequently found among people who used heroin contaminated with the toxin MPTP.  New methods of treatment include the destruction of the globus pallidus and the transplantation of fetal tissue.  This is intended to repair the damaged neurons in the substantia nigra whose failure to transmit dopamine to the basal ganglia causes the symptoms.  FTP, identify this disease that bears the name of the physician who described it in his Essay on the Shaking Palsy?
A disruption in the production of alpha synuclein has recently been discovered as the cause of this disease.  
Parkinson's Disease or parkinsonism or paralysis agitans