Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Phenomenology and management of cognitive and behavioral disorders in Parkinson's disease. Rise and logic of dementia in Parkinson's disease. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Review Phenomenology and management of cognitive and behavioral disorders in Parkinson s disease. Rise and logic of dementia in Parkinson s disease Constantin Potagas and Sokratis Papageorgiou Address Department of Neurology University of Athens Medical School Eginition Hospital Athens Greece Email Constantin Potagas - cpotagas@ Sokratis Papageorgiou - sokpapa@ Corresponding author Published 08 August 2006 Received 24 February 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5 12 doi 1744-859X-5-12 Accepted 08 August 2006 This article is available from http content 5 1 12 2006 Potagas and Papageorgiou licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract An overview of studies on the issue of dementia in Parkinson s disease shows that over time there has been an evolution in the perception of the magnitude of the problem and of its nature. Dementia seems today to be part of the disease. This change in the understanding of the disease can be accounted for by various methodological problems and by difficulties on one hand in the definition of dementia and its differentiation from other conditions and on the other hand in the diagnosis of the disease itself in individual cases. Optimal therapeutic strategies are also examined either based on cholinesterase inhibitors or antiparkinsonian drugs and symptomatic measures. Background the evolution of numbers Speaking today about cognitive and behavioral disorders in Parkinson s disease PD means more and more speaking about dementia. This was not the case in the beginning when James Parkinson in his Essay on the shaking palsy of 1817 1 gave his well-known definition of
