The youngest patients diagnoses with parkinson disease is 23 years old.

The condition in diagnosed of Parkinson's disease by the appearance of motor symptoms, which include resting tremor, muscular rigidity, stooped posture and slowness or difficulty in movement. Other non- motor symptoms like sweating, facials flushing, pain and fatique may also be present. Most of the symptoms of parkinson;s disease are due to deficiency of dopamine caused by the loss of dopamine producing cells in the brains.

Parkinson's disease despite slowing down the patients with proper treatment can enjoy a good quality of life and perform tasks, drive and also playing game. While parkinsom's disease mostly effects the early people, people who is mostly above sixty years of age.About five percentage of people above age of forty and above are diagnoses with parkinson disease. The youngest patients diagnoses with parkinson disease in Malaysia is 23 years old.

Parkinson's disease is not symptomatic of the aging process

Parkinson's disease is not symptomatic of the aging process. Under recognition or under diagnosis of the symptoms of parkinson's disease (PD) is hampering early identification and treatment of the disease. This is due to the major symptoms of the disease, slowness of movement, trembling of the hands and body stiffness, being taken for sign of sging. It is pity that symptom of PD are easily mistaken for signs of aging as the disease is easily treatable with availability of very effective medications that will enable patients to enjoy an extent quality life.

Under diagnosis was also compounded by the difficulty in diagnosising PD due to its non specific and subtle early symptoms, which are often mistaken for drepression. PD is a chronic, progression disorder of the nervous system, which cause increasing and devastating disability over time.