0000000000119913
AUTHOR
Valentina Perini
Sleep and sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease: result of a “spontaneous” observational study on rotigotine
Sleep disturbances and dysautonomic dysfunction are associated in patients with Parkinson’s disease
In patient’s with Parkinson disease, autonomic symptoms are frequent and associated with other non-motor symptoms
Background: Autonomic symptoms and sleep disorders are common non-motor symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD), which are correlated with poor quality of life for patients. Purpose: To assess the frequency of autonomic symptoms in a consecutive series of PD patients and to correlate them with other motor and non-motor symptoms. Methods: All consecutive non-demented PD patients who underwent an extensive evaluation including Hoehn and Yahr staging, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, Beck’s Depression Inventory, Neuropsychiatric Inventory, PDQ-39 Scale, the Parkinson’s diseases Sleep Scale, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and SCOPA-AUT scale were enrolled. Comorbidity has been also considered…
Sleep quality in caregivers of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease patients and its relationship to quality of life
DYSAUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’DISEASE BY SCOPA-AUT SCALE
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