Abstract
THIS is the first of a series on the current therapy of Parkinson's disease, which will cover the following fields: medicinal therapy; physiotherapy; occupational therapy and exercises; surgical therapy, psychotherapy and other therapies; and research and the future outlook for Parkinson's disease.Parkinson's disease is actually one of the easiest ailments to treat, especially in the early phases, because it usually progresses very slowly and is often interspaced by stationary periods of five to ten years and the diagnosis poses none of the problems encountered in other diseases and no hospital studies or complicated laboratory investigations are required. Generally, a . . .