Intervening in the neuropsychiatric features of Parkinson's disease

Although Parkinson's disease is considered a movement disorder, it has a wide range and high prevalence of affective, psychotic, cognitive, behavioral and sleep-related features. To treat such features, agents including antidepressants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics and cognition-enhancing agents are commonly prescribed, although the targeted syndromes are often incompletely understood and controlled studies demonstrating a treatment's efficacy and tolerability in Parkinson's disease patients are often lacking. Nevertheless, the available information does suggest the outlines of management methods, pending expanded research to identify optimal strategies specific to Parkinson's disease.