What is the youngest known case of Parkinson's?
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I attended a Parkinson's conference in Washington DC this spring, and I remember someone talking about a girl diagnosed with Parkinson's at age seven.  So, I did some searching, and found this website:  \n\nhttp://nh.easterseals.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9177&abbr=NHDR_\n\nHer name is Wilbanice.  Perhaps the article leaves out her last name to protect her identity.  \n\nWriters from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation reference a patient diagnosed at the age of 9 at these links:\n\nhttp://www.pdf.org/Ask/kb.cfm?selectedItem=2858&returnURL=kb%2Ecfm%3Fkeywords%3Dyoungest\n\nhttp://www.pdf.org/Ask/kb.cfm?selectedItem=3006&returnURL=kb%2Ecfm%3Fkeywords%3Dyoungest\n\nI hope this helps.
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I was on a jury a few years back.  The case was a woman accused of murdering the child she was baby sitting.  The little boy was about 18 months old and had had a themometer shoved up it's rectum with the case on it the case broke thru the rectal lining and stayed there causing massive infection and very shortly death.
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Haven't had one yet.\n\nI think fourteen is the youngest appropriate age, unless the kids are really mature.
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Definitely see your family physican.  It could be many things, palsy, Parkinson's, Chorea, stroke, injured muscle, etc.  Your doctor can run the necessary tests to diagnosis the condition.
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Well I think it definitly could be Essential Tremors, it runs in a family and it is movement disorder. Essential tremor is caused by abnormalities in areas of the brain that control movement and does not occur as the result of disease.  Tremor is involuntary trembling in part of the body. Essential tremor is associated with purposeful movement (e.g., holding a glass to drink, shaving, writing, buttoning a shirt). It occurs most often in the hands and head and also may affect the arms, voice box (larynx), trunk, and legs. \nDifference between Parkinson's and Essential Tremors is that in Parkinson's tremors appear during the rest and disapear when person move, with Essential Tremors it's affected always, sometimes even more when person is trying to do some exact thing. \nIt can appear at any age. For some people, essential tremor may be distressing but not debilitating. Others may find that their tremors make it difficult to work, perform everyday tasks that require fine-motor skills or do the things they enjoy.\nSymptoms may remain mild or increase in severity over time. Stress, fatigue, anxiety, and hot or cold weather can worsen the disorder. Severe tremor may cause difficulty performing activities of daily living, such as: \n\nBrushing hair and teeth \nHolding a glass without spilling \nPerforming self-care (e.g., getting dressed, shaving, putting on makeup) \nUsing eating utensils \nWriting and drawing \n\nTo put diagnoses it is required to:\nDiagnosis of essential tremor is based on the observation of symptoms, a thorough medical history, physical examination, and neurological examination. Performance tests, such as asking the patient to write, draw, hold an object, or drink from a glass, help the physician evaluate the tremor. \n\nI hope this answers your question! If you need somebody to talk to please feel free to write me an email: lina_girl06@yahoo.com\nAll the best!
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yes, there was recently a toddler born at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford its quite interesting and the story can be found at http://lpch.org/newsEvents/NewsReleases/heterotopic.html
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So basically, your child has just been diagnosed with a neoplasm and you're thinking about suing the doctor presumably  for economic purposes. wow.\n\n////\n\nTo reply again: you're saying they misdiagnosed.  have you referred the child to another pool of doctors who drew another diagnose? is there no paraclinical evidence (cat,  rm scans, biopsing, etc) to back the original diagnosis?\n\nbasically, you're saying the neurologist drew the diagnosis out of thin air.
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Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans or PD) is a movement disorder often characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement (bradykinesia), and in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement (akinesia). The primary symptoms are due to excessive muscle contraction. This is normally caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine, which is normally produced in the dopaminergic neurons in the brain. Parkinson's Disease was first formally recognised and its symptoms documented in 1817 in An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by the British physician Dr James Parkinson; the associated biochemical changes in the brain of patients were identified in the 1960s.\n\nParkinson's disease is a disorder of the central nervous system. The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord. Parkinson's disease is one of the conditions known as a movement disorder. \n\nCertain cells in the brain make a chemical substance called dopamine (DOE-puh-mean). Dopamine carries messages that tell the body how and when to move. Parkinson's disease occurs when these brain cells die or are damaged. There is no longer enough dopamine to carry these messages, and movement becomes more difficult. Parkinson's disease is both a chronic and progressive disease. Chronic means that it lasts for a long time. Progressive means the symptoms get worse over time. The symptoms of Parkinson's disease and the speed at which the disease progresses differ for each person. \n\nCheck the 2 links to learn more!
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below is a link that will take you to pictures of Beethoven there are a few that are of him when he was younger. The youngest is about 12.
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Rett Syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder that appears to occur almost exclusively in females but can occur rarely in males. Infants and children with the disorder typically develop normally until about 7 to 18 months of age, when they may begin to lose previously acquired skills (developmental regression), such as purposeful hand movements and the ability to communicate. Additional abnormalities typically include slowing of head growth (acquired microcephaly); development of distinctive, uncontrolled (stereotypic) hand movements, such as hand clapping, rubbing, or "wringing"; and impaired control of voluntary movements required for coordination of walking (gait apraxia). Affected children also typically develop autistic-like behaviors, breathing irregularities, feeding and swallowing difficulties, growth retardation, and episodes of uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain (seizures).
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My uncle has it as does Mohammed Ali. It can ultimately lead to loss of physical movement (akinesia) and normally has symptoms including muscle rigidity, tremor and a slowing of physical movement (bradykinesia). Parkinson's Disease normally progresses slowly and the symptoms can often be relatively mild for years. All About Parkinson's.com relates of the author's mother having being diagnosed with the disease 16 years ago and continuing to live a happy life. We all hope that the same is true with your mother.
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Parkinson's disease (PD) \nis a progressive disorder of the nervous system. With an annual incidence of approximately 20 new cases per 100,000 people, the prevalence is 200 cases per 100,000 people or 0.2%. There are 1,000,000 or more people with PD in the United States; more patients than with multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis combined.\n\nPD is generally age-specific; it is estimated that approximately 1% of the population over age 60 has PD. The occurrence of PD around age 60 suggests the disease may be time-locked to certain age-related changes in the nervous system. However, PD does occur in young people. Approximately 10% of all patients develop symptoms before age 50. This suggests that in addition to any changes related to aging, there are specific changes related to the disease.\n\nPD is characterized by four main features: rigidity or stiffness of the arms, legs or neck; tremor, usually of the hands; bradykinesia or slowness and reduction of movement; and postural instability (loss of balance). Other symptoms may accompany the main features, including depression, dementia or confusion, postural deformity, speech and swallowing difficulty, drooling, dizziness on standing, impotence, urinary frequency and constipation.
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Sounds like mild epilepsy. Happened to myself and several people I know when we were around your daughter's age. Did not affect our daily lives at all, in fact, we became more careful about what we did. \n\nFor example, we avoided swimming and climbing high places. I started having a more healthy diet, did plenty of stretching to ease the tension in my body, take short and long breaks during studying times.\n\nShe will be fine :)
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Since you didn't realize I was being sincere with my answer on David Duke, I want to let you know that I don't joke when it comes to children...so the below is sincere.\n\nEcholalia presents in many types of patients, and for a number of reasons.  However, echolalia in very young children is a natural means of learning speech.  In older children it sometimes presents along with a diagnosis of autism.  Echolalia is at times present with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.\n\nDoes the child simply repeat words or phrases that are spoken to him/her?\n\nDoes he/she present with symptoms of echophraxia? This is imitation of characteristics/movement of another person.  My 4-year-old daughter presents with echophraxia/echolalia, yet as she gets older this is disappearing.  She appears to be a normal child.\n\nI have often thought of autism as being a disorder than can be paliated by therapeutic approaches, however, it appears that in this approach, one treats behaviors as well.  There are several approaches to treating echolalia.  Apparently, therapists believe that echolalia is somehow intrinsically rewarding to the autistic child and don't attempt to mitigate.  However, research has come up with some approaches to treat echolalia.  I provide a link below that looks very interesting.\n\nPallalia is normally a symptom of Parkinson's Disease (PD).  Is there an elderly person staying with you? If so, I'm really sorry.  It can be very hard on your nerves when this symptom is pronounced.  I suppose stutternig could also be part of an autistic's symptoms, but I'm afraid that I can't help with that.  Best Regards.
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Nerves stop undergoing mitosis when they reach maturity. Before maturity, they are stem cells, which are basically undecided cells. Stem cells pertain to parkinsons and alzhimers because they can be grown into whatever cells the patient needs. The new cells replace the damaged ones. \n\nCheck out my podcast, the Daily Latte.\niTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120927843&s=143441\nWebsite: http://www.wolftime.com
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The number of Tourettes cases that have accompanying coprolalia (saying obscenities) is very small.  Although Coprolalia is the most widely known symptom, coprolalia occurs in as low as 5-15% of patients and 5-30% in some clinical series.\n\nI hope that you are not making a joke.  I'ts not funny.  \n\nInsensitive hollywood types have grasped this and made it the most popular symptom, even though MOST PEOPLE WITH TOURETES DO NOT HAVE THIS SYMPTOM.\n\nSo what is your point?
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I know what you are going through....I am 51 and was diagnosed with PD two years ago.  The doctors (I've seen 3) don't tell you much (at least what to expect).  I believe that is because everyone has different symtoms and different degrees of systoms.  What I did was to go to the book store and get a book about Parkinson's Disease.  It was very informative.  Told me what I might be looking at "down the road".  Medication can help, although it takes some work to find what will work for you.  (I am in that process right now). It is a guessing game for you and the doctors....try until you find something that works for you.  Mine is getting progressively worse.  Started with my right hand shaking, then it progressed to the entire arm and now my right leg also shakes.  Stress makes it worse.  I have been in retail for the last 28 years and it is looking like I will probably have to stop working in the not too distant future.....can't keep up the pace.  Good luck to you and get as informed as you can.  There is an on line group that you can go to that will answer any questions that you may have now or in the future......check on line......