Task 4 Short Answer Questions
Listen to a passage “Treatment of Parkinson's Disease” twice. While listening, you are to give an answer as short as possible to each of the question below.
1. What donew treatments to ease symptoms of the Parkinson’s disease enable many patientsto do?
Continueto live almost normally.
2. What doeslevodopa, the most commonly used drug, do when it reaches the brain of the patientwith Parkinson’s disease?
It replaces the dopamine.
3. What is pallidotomy?
An operation to treat Parkinson’s disease.
4. What is the most recent development in treatment of Parkinson’sdisease?
Braintissue transplants.
5. What elsecan be done for patients and their families learning to live with the disease?
Providing them with education and supportservices.

