Parkinson’s disease associated psychosis: Prevalence and risk factors
Objective: To compare prevalence of psychosis in Parkinson's disease (PD) using the NINDS-NIMH and standard criteria (hallucinations and / or delusions). Background: The prevalence of…The role of depression in suicidal ideation in a sample of patients with Parkinson’s disease
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the frequency of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in a sample of consecutive patients with Parkinson's…Relation between personality trait and depression in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: 1. To investigate personality trait of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). 2. To clarify the relationship between personality trait and depression in patients with…Facial expressivity in Parkinson’s disease (PD) via an examination of smiling behavior: Preliminary findings
Objective: The purpose was to examine facial emotional expression in individuals with PD and in healthy control (HC) subjects (Ss) using the Facial Action Coding…Fractionating apathy – Effort, reward and impulsivity mechanisms in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease
Objective: Refine understanding of the processes underpinning apathy in neurodegenerative disease, by identifying 1) objective measures to assess apathy; 2) parcellating the broad construct of…Neuropsychological correlates of impulse control disorders and punding in Parkinson´ s disease
Objective: To investigate the relationship between cognitive deficits, Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs) and Punding in Parkinson's disease (PD). Background: The neuropsychological correlates of ICDs and…Reward insensitivity differentiates apathy from depression in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To determine if a potential cause of apathy in Parkinson's disease (PD) might be insensitivity to rewards, establish if this differentiates apathy from depression…Visual hallucinations and executive dysfunction in Charles Bonnet syndrome: Preliminary findings from SHAPED
Objective: To establish whether frontal cognitive deficits associated with visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease (PD) are also present in patients with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS).…Profile of depressive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients and a population-based elderly cohort
Objective: To examine the prevalences and profiles of depressive symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and population-based control groups by using the Beck depression inventory.…Subthalamic neurons encode reward hypersensitivity and loss hyposensitivity in Parkinson’s patients with impulse control disorders
Objective: 1) To determine if a subset of subthalamic nucleus (STN) neurons in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients modulate activity in response to valence-related stimuli (reward/punishment)…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.