A new file : Who gets Parkinson?
The most honest answer to this question is that we don't know. For now, many researchers and scientists are still figuring out to why one gets Parkinson and the other does not. It is like there are no risk factors. True enough, aging might have something to do with getting Parkinson, 60 years old is the average onset of Parkinson's disease but it does not mean that only the elderly gets Parkinson's disease. There are people getting the disease as young as when they are in their twenties or thirties. Parkinson is also too common for one to state that it is a hereditary disease. It can be coincidence that 2 people in the same family has the disease. Multiple environmental factors such as potential toxins, and drugs may damage the neurons of the Substantia Nigra and cause Parkinson symptoms subsequently but no single, specific toxin is responsible for the disease itself. Hence, the file on this does not close, as there isn't a satisfactory to this 'WHY ME?' question yet.
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