Parkinson's Facts
This London physician published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817, lending his name to the condition.
Who is James Parkinson
This single word is the key concept taught to people with Parkinson's to make speech less automatic and more controlled.
What is intent (or intention)
This national park, famous for Old Faithful and a supervolcano, was established as the world's first national park in 1872.
What is Yellowstone National Park
Archaeologists have found perfectly preserved, edible samples of this sweet food in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs, making it virtually the only food that never spoils.
What is honey
Long before Irish immigrants brought the tradition of the jack-o'-lantern to America, they carved them out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips
This symptom, the reduced ability to smell, can precede the motor symptoms of PD by years.
What is anosmia or hyposmia
The core individual SPEAK OUT! program is typically completed in this number of sessions, spread over about four weeks.
What are 12 sessions (or 8-12 sessions)
Known as the "most visited" U.S. National Park, this park straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee and is famous for its namesake fog.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Botanically, this common fruit is a berry, yet its cousins, the strawberry and raspberry, are not considered true berries.
What is a banana
The tradition of trick-or-treating in America was inspired by this medieval practice, where the poor would beg for small, sweet cakes in exchange for promising to pray for the dead.
What is souling
This term describes the phenomenon in PD where a person's handwriting progressively shrinks and becomes cramped.
What is micrographia
Upon completing the individual program, participants are encouraged to join a weekly group therapy for maintenance, which is known by this name.
What is The LOUD Crowd (or SPEAK OUT! Groups)
This Kentucky national park protects the world's longest known cave system, with over 400 miles of passages mapped.
What is Mammoth Cave National Park
The common green paste served with sushi is often a mixture of horseradish and coloring, because real hon-wasabi comes from the grated rhizome of this difficult-to-grow Japanese plant.
What is wasabi
Long before jack-o'-lanterns were associated with pumpkins, the tradition in Ireland and Scotland was tied to a folklore character named "Stingy Jack", an infamous drunkard who twice tricked the Devil.
Who is Jack (or Stingy Jack)
These are the abnormal clumps of the alpha-synuclein protein that accumulate in the neurons of PD patients.
What are Lewy bodies
This is the name of the speech-language pathologist who founded the Parkinson Voice Project and developed the SPEAK OUT! program.
Who is Samantha Elandary
This Alaskan park is the largest in the U.S. National Park System, encompassing over 13 million acres—larger than the entire country of Switzerland.
What is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Nicknamed "Red Gold," this spice is the world's most expensive by weight, requiring the hand-harvesting of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower.
What is saffron
Though often debated by various surveys, this peanut butter and chocolate confection consistently ranks as the best-selling Halloween candy in the United States.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
The diagnosis of PD's motor symptoms means that 50% to 80% of the dopamine-producing cells in this brain region have typically already been lost.
What is the substantia nigra
In addition to improving speech clarity and volume, the program has also been shown to help preserve or improve this critical function often affected by Parkinson's.
What is swallowing
This is the only U.S. National Park located entirely south of the equator.
What is the National Park of American Samoa
This common dessert ingredient was created by a dentist in 1897 and was originally introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 under the name "Fairy Floss."
What is cotton candy
The current Guinness World Record for the heaviest jack-o'-lantern was carved from a giant pumpkin weighing over 2,749 pounds, which is approximately the weight of an adult male of this large African mammal.
What is an African white rhinoceros (or rhino)