Parkinson's disease (PD) was initially described Dr. James Parkinson inside a little book entitled An Essay about the Shaking Palsy, published in 1817. For the following century, the problem was known popularly since the shaking palsy as well as in the medical community by its Latin equivalent, paralysis agitans. These terms are misleading, however, implying [...]

This report concerns a sixty seven yr old woman having a proper diagnosis of PSP in whom freezing and frequent falling were one of the most disabling the signs of the condition during the time of presentation. Both symptoms, that have been rated 4 about the Unified Parkinson Rating Scale (UPRS) which grades Parkinsonian symptoms [...]