pbA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - iPublishers WeeklyibbrbbbrbA star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease bbrbbbrSeven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In iBrain Stormsi, the award-winning journalist Jon Palfreman tells their story, a story that became his own when he was diagnosed with the debilitating illness. br Palfreman chronicles how scientists have worked to crack the mystery of what was once called the shaking palsy, from the earliest clinical descriptions of tremors, gait freezing, and micrographia to the cutting edge of neuroscience, and charts the victories and setbacks of a massive international effort to best the disease. He takes us back to the late 1950s and the discovery of L-dopa. He delves into a number of other therapeutic approaches to this perplexing condition, from partial lobotomies and deep brain stimulation to neural graf