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Progressive supranuclear palsy: New disease or variant of postencephalitic parkinsonism?
Author(s) -
Brusa Adolfo,
Stoehr Rolf,
Pramstaller Peter P.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.10699
Subject(s) - progressive supranuclear palsy , parkinsonism , disease , medicine , degenerative disease , psychiatry , pediatrics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , pathology
We review the etiological importance of the epidemic encephalitis for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and addresses the question of whether the explosion of PSP literature in the mid‐20th century reflects the appearance of a new disease. We examined 2,000 studies on Parkinson's disease from 1861 to 1963 and found PSP‐like cases in the past, before the epidemic encephalitis era. It can be assumed that PSP is neither a new disease nor a variant of postencephalitic parkinsonism. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society