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Managing the double burden of depression and Parkinson's disease
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.235
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , parkinson's disease , disease , medicine , motor symptoms , psychiatry , population , psychology , environmental health , macroeconomics , economics
About a third of patients with Parkinson's disease show clinically significant symptoms of depression, which often emerge before the motor symptoms and the risk persists throughout the course of the disease. Recent studies indicate that depression in Parkinson's disease is as treatable as it is in the general population and shed more light on its optimal management.