LiveNOW’s Andy Mac spoke with Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist from The Parkinson’s Foundation and UF Health’s Normal Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases, about the disease, how it’s diagnosed, treatment options and more amid reports that a Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in the last year. Amid recent political news surrounding questions of age and health issues affecting the elderly, neurologist Dr. Michael Okun discusses Parkinson’s disease (or diseases as Okun explains it’s a family of related diseases that affect the brain as a neurological disorder). Okun also discusses how the condition is similar and different from Alzheimer’s.