Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans or PD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the substantia nigra, an area in the basal ganglia of the brain. The disease involves a progressive disorder of the ...

One of the challenging features of neurodegenerative diseases is that they tend to defy the clinician’s desire for neat categorization, as many patients suffer a range of symptoms across intersecting ...

Just before he was 6 months old, Tito went for another examination at Padua Hospital. His neurologist lay him face down on the stretcher. At that moment, he should have rolled over onto his back.

Fahr's syndrome (FS) is also known as Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification. It is a genetically inherited neurological condition, proposed to have both an autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive ...