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Parkinson’s Disease: Psychosocial Aspects

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Degenerative parkinsonism; Parkinsonism; Parkinson's disease; PD; Secondary parkinsonism

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and is characterized by motoric symptoms of resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and gait disturbance. The psychosocial aspects of PD involve the interaction of PD symptomatology, psychological development and function, personal relationships, and environmental factors.

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately between 500,000 and a million Americans of all races and ethnic groups, and 0.3% (5 million) of the world’s population. Pathologically, PD is an inexorably progressive disorder of unknown cause in which neurons of the substantia nigra progressively degenerate resulting in greater degrees of brain dopamine deficiency. In addition, a number of other neuronal pathways degenerate including cholinergic, noradrenergic, and serotonergic...

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Columbia University/New York State Psychiaric Institute, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, 75390, TX, USA

    Dr. Shawn McClintock, Matthieu Chansard & Mustafa M. Husain

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  1. Dr. Shawn McClintock
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  1. Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Marc D. Gellman

  2. Cardiovascular Safety, Quintiles, Durham, NC, USA

    J. Rick Turner

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McClintock, S., Chansard, M., Husain, M.M. (2013). Parkinson’s Disease: Psychosocial Aspects. In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_1308

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