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Psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease
Karen E Anderson1, William J Weiner
1Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. kanderson@psych.umaryland.edu
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
|June 5, 2002
Abstract:
Aside from the well-known triad of resting tremor, postural instability, and bradykinesia, Parkinson's disease (PD) patients may also develop psychiatric illness as a part of their disease. The psychiatric symptoms may be as disabling as the movement disorder, but are often amenable to treatment. We review the most recent investigations of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and hallucinations/ psychosis in PD. We then highlight new treatment studies for hallucinations/psychosis in PD.