S. J. Phipps Para Supra Nuclear Palsy also known as PSP is a progressive disease. It is the detereation of the brain stem. It was first diagnosed on the island of Guam in the early 1940's. However there are about 20,000 cases now known in the United States, one of which is my father. This disease is usually diagnosed as Parkinson's Disease, until one day the patient starts to fall more, starts choking on food and their own salvia.
Conditions worsen after the diagnosis is made.
The patient losses the use of leg muscles. The throat muscles atrophy and they cannot talk . Eventually the eyes tear uncontrollably for which there is no cure. Eventually the eye sight goes . The patients cause of death is usually pneumonia or choking.