Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans or PD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the substantia nigra, an area in the basal ganglia of the brain. The disease involves a progressive disorder of the ...

Just before he was 6 months old, Tito went for another examination at Padua Hospital. His neurologist lay him face down on the stretcher. At that moment, he should have rolled over onto his back.

THE investigations of Carlsson 1,2, by which he demonstrated that practically all dopamine in the mammalian brain is found in the caudate- and entiform-nucleus (forming an important part of the ...