HOUSTONâJustin Friendâs parents have doctoral degrees and have worked as university lecturers and researchers. So Mr. Friend might have been expected to head for a university after graduating from high school in Bryan, Texas, five years ago. Instead, he attended Texas State Technical College in Waco, and received a two-year degree in welding.
A flurry of emergent research has linked mitochondrial dysfunction to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Mitochondrial dysfunction results in impaired ATP generation, loss of cellular repair mechanisms, and cellular inefficiency.
Parkinson's disease is a disease of the brain that primarily affects movement.The typical symptoms of Parkinson's disease include difficulty walking, difficulty initiating movements, and a slow hand tremor. different phenomenon called Parkinsonism is a syndrome that has features of Parkinson's disease (slow movement and tremor), but does not meet full criteria for the disease. This is a common phenomenon that typically occurs in much older patients.