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2. Parkinson's disease dementia - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease starts as a movement disorder, but progresses in most cases to include dementia and changes in mood and behavior. [6] The signs, symptoms and cognitive profile of PDD are similar to those of DLB; [ 2 ] DLB and PDD are clinically similar after dementia occurs in Parkinson's disease. [ 5 ]

3. Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease dementia is associated with a reduced quality of life in people with PD and their caregivers, increased mortality, and a higher probability of needing nursing home care. [ 226 ] The incidence rate of falls in Parkinson's patients is approximately 45 to 68%, thrice that of healthy individuals, and half of such falls result in ...

4. Parkinsonism - Wikipedia

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   Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome characterized by tremor, bradykinesia (slowed movements), rigidity, and postural instability. [1] [2] Both hypokinetic (bradykinesia and akinesia) as well as hyperkinetic (cogwheel rigidity and tremors at rest) features are displayed by Parkinsonism. [3]

5. Dementia - Wikipedia

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   When dementia occurs in Parkinson's disease, the underlying cause may be dementia with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's disease, or both. [99] Cognitive impairment also occurs in the Parkinson-plus syndromes of progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration (and the same underlying pathology may cause the clinical syndromes of ...

6. Lewy body dementia - Wikipedia

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   Generally, dementia with Lewy bodies is distinguished from Parkinson's disease dementia by the time frame in which dementia symptoms appear relative to parkinsonian symptoms and is diagnosed when cognitive symptoms begin before or at the same time as parkinsonism. Parkinson's disease dementia is the diagnosis when Parkinson's disease is already ...

7. Parkinson-plus syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), may or may not be part of the PD spectrum, but it is increasingly recognized as the second-most common type of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease. These disorders are currently lumped into two groups, the synucleinopathies and the tauopathies .