Can Someone Give Me Any Suggestions for My Assignment?

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1. Mags says:

   March 2, 2010 at 7:51 am

   Just google neurotransmitter diagrams or dopamine neurotransmitters and you will have an excellent diagram for Parkinson’s. Several will come up in that search.

   Here’s one link – just click on the box “neurotransmission at a synapse”

   I was going to suggest a diagram showing the deterioration of the PD body through posture – it would be based upon the Hohen Yahr scale:
   Just scroll down the page until you see the five stages. The diagram would require 6 or 7
   What you begin with is the vertical posture; the beginning of the stooped shoulders, one arm swinging; a cane, neither arm swinging and the patient is more stooped, the stride length even shorter; you would have a person with a walker; wheelchair and finally horizontal, lying contracted/contorted on a bed.

   Here is a link to a photo showing the early stages as a comparison:

   Hope you can draw – you could also have someone pose for you if you have the props – go to a medical supply store with the canes, walkers, wheel chairs and you have 3 of 6 pictures.

   A really good DIAGRAM site where you can navigate from information and diagrams to other diagrams is here where you should scroll down to Parkinson’s Disease first:

   You should be able to do take it from there.

   Another idea would be to diagram the synthesis of dopamine in the brain – don’t omit norepinephrine.