Dementia of Depression in Parkinson??s Disease and Stroke

Neuropsychiatric aspects of Parkinson’s disease: Recent advances

“…A few studies demonstrate close relationships between depression and impaired cognition that reverse after treatment of the mood syndrome [22,[27][28][29][30]. Starkstein et al [31,32] suggest that executive functions are more impaired in depressed PD patients and they are not reversible.…”

Are dementia and depression in Parkinson's disease related?

“…Some of these symptoms are also present in dementia [3][4][5][6][7]. In many patients, especially the elderly, its often difficult to distinguish dementia from depression [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. In a review of all studies of depression in PD published from 1992 to 1998, a total of 45 studies comprising 5911 PD patients, the reviewer found that, at any given time, 31% of PD patients were depressed [15].…”

Depression and parkinson's disease: a new look at an old problem

“…However, these studies suffer from a lack of standardized criteria to rate depression and cognitive symptoms. Troster et al [1995] have found that depression in PD influences the quantity and not the quality of language and memory impairments and treating the depression has been shown to improve cognition [Mayeux et al, 1981;Starkstein and Robinson, 1991].…”