Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction

This comprehensive contemporary survey of the non-motor facets of Parkinson's disease has now been fully updated and expanded for a new edition that covers all the autonomic, sensorimotor, sleep-related, and sensory aspects of non-motor dysfunction.

This collection of review articles provides detailed clinical descriptions and treatment recommendations for the important, but often unrecognized, nonmotor dysfunctions of Parkinson's disease. Topics range from behavioral abnormalities and autonomic dysfunction to sleep-related and sensory dysfunction, and include depression and anxiety, dementia, psychosis, obsessionality, gastric and intestinal dysfunction, impaired sexual function, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and sleep apnea. The authors review what is known about each type of dysfunction, discussing clinical features, methods of diagnosis, and treatment.

Comprehensive, leading-edge overview of nonmotor features and aspects of Parkinson's Disease All chapters updated and expanded with topics of dermatological, vestibular, and dental dysfunction Discussion and analysis of burgeoning clinical and biomedicial information developed on nonmotor features Parkinson's Disease in the last several years Written by a renowned panel of experts

Autorentext

Ronald F. Pfeiffer, MD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Neurology, Memphis, TN, USA

Ivan Bodis-Wollner, MD, DSc
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Zusammenfassung
This comprehensive contemporary survey of the non-motor facets of Parkinson's disease has now been fully updated and expanded for a new edition that covers all the autonomic, sensorimotor, sleep-related, and sensory aspects of non-motor dysfunction.

Inhalt

Depression in Parkinson's Disease: An Update.- Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease.- Obsessionality.- Dementia.- Psychosis.- Postsurgical Behavioral Changes.- Apathy in Parkinson`s Disease.- Dysphagia.- Gastric Function In Parkinson's Disease.- Intestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Impaired Sexual Function.- Urological Dysfunction.- Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Thermoregulatory Dysfunction In Parkinson's Disease.- Respiratory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Dermatological Disorders In Parkinson's Disease.- Insomnia in Parkinson's Disease.- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder.- Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Parkinson's Disease.- Sleep Apnea.- Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Primary Visual and Visuocognitive Deficits.- Olfactory Dysfunction.- Pain in Parkinson's Disease: Pathophysiology, Classification and Clinical Approach.- Vestibular Dysfunction.- Oculomotor Dysfunction In Parkinson's Disease.- Fatigue: A Common Comorbidity in Parkinson's Disease.- Maxillofacial Signs and Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease and their Dental Management.