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Drug therapy in patients with Parkinson’s disease

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Title
Drug therapy in patients with Parkinson’s disease
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Translational Neurodegeneration, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/2047-9158-1-10
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Thomas Müller

Abstract

Parkinson`s disease (PD) is a progressive, disabling neurodegenerative disorder with onset of motor and non-motor features. Both reduce quality of life of PD patients and cause caregiver burden. This review aims to provide a survey of possible therapeutic options for treatment of motor and non motor symptoms of PD and to discuss their relation to each other. MAO-B-Inhibitors, NMDA antagonists, dopamine agonists and levodopa with its various application modes mainly improve the dopamine associated motor symptoms in PD. This armentarium of PD drugs only partially influences the onset and occurrence of non motor symptoms. These PD features predominantly result from non dopaminergic neurodegeneration. Autonomic features, such as seborrhea, hyperhidrosis, orthostatic syndrome, salivation, bladder dysfunction, gastrointestinal disturbances, and neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as depression, sleep disorders, psychosis, cognitive dysfunction with impaired execution and impulse control may appear. Drug therapy of these non motor symptoms complicates long-term PD drug therapy due to possible occurrence of drug interactions, - side effects, and altered pharmacokinetic behaviour of applied compounds. Dopamine substituting compounds themselves may contribute to onset of these non motor symptoms. This complicates the differentiation from the disease process itself and influences therapeutic options, which are often limited because of additional morbidity with necessary concomitant drug therapy.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 152 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 17%
Student > Bachelor 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 13%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 37 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 13%
Neuroscience 15 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 7%
Psychology 9 6%
Other 36 23%
Unknown 42 26%
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