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..However, the prevalence and clinical features of these symptoms have not been studied in a representative sample...

..To study the safety and efficacy of the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and cognitive impairment...

..Severity of EPS correlated with age, duration of disease, and cognitive impairment in PD patients but not in DLB patients. Studies of the clinical significance and management of EPS in DLB patients are needed...

..To compare the frequency and clinical correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with and without dementia and in those with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)...

..To calculate the incidence of and determine possible risk factors for dementia in PD...

..To compare the profile of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD)...

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..To determine the emotional and social distress of caring for a patient with Parkinson's disease and to explore the impact of motor and mental symptoms in subjects with Parkinson's disease on their caregivers' situation...

..The objective of this study was to describe the range of neuropsychiatric symptoms in a representative sample of patients with Parkinson's disease...

..Six subjects (29%) discontinued treatment prematurely because of drowsiness. Delusions and hallucinations improved significantly, and 80% were rated as much or very much improved. There was no worsening of parkinsonism or cognition...

..To examine the occurrence and clinical and demographic correlates of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in a community-based cohort over 8 years...

..To compare neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies(DLB)...

..The relation between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) is unknown...

..However, age at onset (AAO) and age at baseline assessment are often correlated. The aim of this study was to explore whether AAO of PD symptoms is a risk factor for dementia independent of the general effect of age...

..However, the absolute risk of dementia and how it affects survival in PD are not known. Such questions are important for patients, their families, and service providers but require long-term studies...

..To explore the profile of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia associated with Parkinson's disease (PDD)...

..The association between apathy and intrusions supports the hypothesis that lesions in frontal areas or frontal connections contribute to a specific neuropsychiatric syndrome in patients with MS...

..International comparative studies offer special advantages in elucidating environmental risk factors by providing a wider diversity of environmental exposures such as nursing home structures, health care systems and genetic diversity...

..We investigated caregiver distress associated with neuropsychiatric problems in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease (PD)...

..To examine associated demographic and clinical correlates and the development of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) over 8 years in a community-based cohort of patients with Parkinson disease (PD)...

..The aim of this study is to investigate the association of psychosocial factors and patient factors with stress in care staff in nursing homes...

..To examine the development of nocturnal sleeping problems in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) over an 8-year period and to study the clinical and demographic correlates of insomnia...

..To investigate the inter-relationship of neuropsychiatric disturbances in Parkinson's disease (PD) by cluster analysis and describe the properties of the clusters...

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..Our results indicate that the familial aggregation of the disease is independent of the age of the proband...

..01) than SLE patients. CONCLUSION: Neuropsychiatric symptoms occur frequently in patients with MS. Irritability and apathy are independent of disability and chronic disease and represent unique disease manifestations...

..During follow-up, 30 new patients had EDS (6% new patients per year). In 1997, 29% of the patients with PD had EDS. The development of EDS correlated with more advanced disease and dementia...

..Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are the most common neurodegenerative dementia types. It is important to differentiate between them because of the differences in prognosis and treatment approaches...

..The objective of this study was to explore the load of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD) and compare to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal controls (NC)...

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..The comparative impairment of these cognitive domains in PD and PD dementia (PD dementia) has not been studied, and is important to the conceptual understanding of parkinsonian dementias...

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..To investigate the effects of attentional deficits on activities of daily living (ADL) in patients with dementia associated with Parkinson's disease (PDD)...