“…Following the epidemiological reports, new studies addressed BSDs in PD, generically naming the described disorders as hypomania. 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 Guided by earlier literature, 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 and also because, in several legal instances, two senior authors of the present paper were asked to provide an earnest analysis for compensation claims, which were at the time prevalent on social and public media, 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 we started testing all PD patients in our cohort using psychiatric scales and interviews to assess BSDs. When the last epidemiological studies were published, 35 , 36 we thought we could present our data for discussion.…”