Parkinson’s disease (PD): psychiatric features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on parkinson’s disease (pd): psychiatric features: Psychiatric features Alexithymia: this is difficulty identifying and describing feelings Anhedonia Apathy Anxiety Delusions Delusional jealousy: this is caused by dopamine agonists (DA) Depression Obsessive…

Psychiatric features

  • Alexithymia: this is difficulty identifying and describing feelings
  • Anhedonia
  • Apathy
  • Anxiety
  • Delusions
  • Delusional jealousy: this is caused by dopamine agonists (DA)
  • Depression
  • Obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD)
  • Demoralisation: this is the inability to cope: it is distinct from depression
  • Harm-avoidance personality: this is low novelty-seeking personality
  • Feeling of presence (FOP)
  • Psychosis
  • Suicide

Suicide: predictors

Functional neurological disorders (PD-FND)

References

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