Open AccessParkinson's Disease, Depression, and Quality-of-Life
Author(s) -
Bindu Me,
Rani Nayar,
Suresh Kumar,
Sandhya Cherkil,
Anil Venkatachalam,
Kutickat Surendran,
K S Deepak
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.155611
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , quality of life (healthcare) , geriatric depression scale , medicine , disease , psychiatry , parkinsonism , parkinson's disease , psychology , physical therapy , depressive symptoms , cognition , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) but is often under diagnosed and under treated leading to worsening of symptoms and deterioration of the quality-of-life of the people suffering from this disease.