In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy[1], describing for the first time cases of a neurodegenerative disorder now known as Parkinson’s disease. Today, Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease[2] in the U.S. It affects about 1 million Americans and more than 10 million people worldwide.
The signature shaking in patients with the disease is the...