Twelve million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease. That number has nearly doubled in six years.

Unlike many neurological conditions, researchers say Parkinson’s may largely be something we are doing to ourselves.

For most of history, Parkinson’s has been a very rare disease. Although records of possible Parkinson’s disease can be found in very early texts, the first clear medical documentation was written only two hundred years ago in 1817.

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