Parkinson's Disease

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Parkinson's Disease

General Information

NEWS:

ARTICLES:

AHRQ - Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2004)

NGC - Parkinson's disease in the long-term care setting. (2002)

Parkinson's Disease Dementia

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A systematic review of prevalence studies of dementia in Parkinson's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Aggregated alpha-synuclein activates microglia: a process leading to disease progression in Parkinson's disease. (FASEB J. 2005)

Anosmia is very common in the Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 and catechol-O-methyltransferase alleles in autopsy-proven Parkinson's disease: Relationship to dementia and hallucinations. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Body mass index is reduced early in Parkinson's Disease. (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Challenging conventional wisdom: the etiologic role of dopamine oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Characterization of subclinical tremor in Parkinson's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease: a case-control study in a population characterized by a high prevalence of pesticide exposure. (Mov Disord. 2005)

[Cognitive disorder in Parkinson's disease] (Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 2005)

Cognitive profile of patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson disease. (Neurology. 2005)

Cognitive profiles of individual patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia: Comparison with dementia with lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Cognitive status correlates with neuropathologic stage in Parkinson disease. (Neurology. 2005)

Contribution of aging to the severity of different motor signs in Parkinson disease. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Controversy: Is Parkinson's disease a single disease entity? Yes. (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Dementia in Parkinson's disease: a post-mortem study in a population of brain donors (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2005)

Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia: are they different? (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Depression in Parkinson's disease: loss of dopamine and noradrenaline innervation in the limbic system. (Brain. 2005)

Depression in Parkinson's disease: study of 60 cases. (Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2005)

Dopaminergic basis for deficits in working memory but not attentional set-shifting in Parkinson's disease. (Neuropsychologia. 2005)

Excessive daytime sleepiness and subsequent development of Parkinson disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Excessive daytime sleepiness and subsequent development of Parkinson disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Excessive daytime sleepiness in parkinsonism. (Sleep Med Rev. 2005)

Hallucinations and sleep disorders in PD (NEUROLOGY)

Is the functional decline of Parkinson's disease similar to the functional decline of Alzheimer's disease? (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Long duration asymmetrical postural tremor is likely to predict development of Parkinson's disease and not essential tremor: clinical follow up study of 13 cases. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Long-term survival of Parkinson's disease A population-based study. (J Neurol. 2005)

Microglial activation and dopamine terminal loss in early Parkinson's disease. (Ann Neurol. 2005)

Molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson disease. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Neuroinflammatory processes in Parkinson's disease. (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Nocturnal problems occurring in Parkinson's disease. (Neurology)

Oxidative stress and inflammation in Parkinson's disease: is there a causal link? (Exp Neurol. 2005)

Parkinson disease: Handedness predicts asymmetry (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Parkinson disease, brain volumes, and subthalamic nucleus stimulation (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Parkinsonian signs in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Parkinson's disease in China: prevalence in Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai (Lancet 2005)

Parkinson's disease: A broken nosology. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Pathogenic effects of alpha-synuclein aggregation. (Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2005)

Pathological substrate of dementia in Parkinson's disease--its relation to DLB and DLBD. (Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005)

Patterns of psychological problems in Parkinson's disease. (Acta Neurol Scand. 2005)

Physical activity and the risk of Parkinson disease. (Neurology. 2005)

Prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease in Europe. (Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005)

Prevalence of Parkinson's disease in Sydney (Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 2005)

Prognosis of Parkinson Disease (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Progression of motor impairment and disability in Parkinson disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Psychosis in Parkinson's disease. (Postgrad Med J. 2005)

Psychotic symptoms in Parkinson's disease From description to etiology. (J Neurol. 2005)

Risk and protective factors for Parkinson's disease: A study in Swedish twins (Annals of Neurology)

Rotenone induces oxidative stress and dopaminergic neuron damage in organotypic substantia nigra cultures. (Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2005)

Saccadic eye movement changes in Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. (Brain. 2005)

Study of verbal working memory in patients with Parkinson's disease. (Neuropsychology. 2005)

Survival in Parkinson disease (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Swallowing abnormalities and dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Therapeutic role of coenzyme Q(10) in Parkinson's disease. (Pharmacol Ther. 2005)

Throat clicking as the initial symptom of Parkinson's disease. (Mov Disord. 2005)

Visual dysfunction in Parkinson disease without dementia. (Neurology. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Parkinson's disease

NIH - NINDS Parkinson's Disease Information Page

NIH - Parkinson disease

NIH - Parkinson's Disease

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NIH - Parkinson's Disease Tutorial

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