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Parkinson's disease is associated with classical Parkinsonian features that respond to dopaminergic therapy. Neuropsychiatric sequelae include dementia, major depression, dysthymia, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, and sexual disorders. Panic attacks are particularly common. With treatment, visual hallucinations, paranoid delusions, mania, or delirium may evolve. Psychosis is a key factor in nursing home placement, and depression is the most significant predictor of quality of life. Clozapine may be the safest treatment for psychotic features, but more research is needed to establish the efficacy of antidepressant treatments. Dementia with Lewy bodies, the second most common dementia in the elderly, may present in association with systematized delusions, depression, or RBD. Early evidence suggests the utility of rivastigmine, donepezil, low-dose olanzapine, and quetiapine in treating DLB. Parkinson-plus syndromes generally lack a good response to dopaminergic treatment and evidence additional features, including dysautonomia, cerebellar and pontine features, eye signs, and other movement disorders. MSA is associated with dysautonomia and RBD. SND (MSA-P) is associated with frontal cognitive impairments, but dementia, psychosis, and mood disorders have not been strikingly apparent unless additional pathological findings are present. In SDS (MSA-A), impotence is almost ubiquitous; urinary incontinence is frequent; depression is occasional, and sleep apnea should be treated to avoid sudden death during sleep. OPCA neuropsychiatric correlates await further definition. Progressive supranuclear palsy neuropsychiatric features include apathy, subcortical dementia, pathological emotionality, mild depression and anxiety, and lack of appreciable response to donepezil. CBD usually is recognized by early frontal dementia with ideomotor apraxia, often in the right upper extremity, attended later by poorly responsive unilateral Parkinsonism, with additional signs including cortical reflex myoclonus, limb dystonia, alien limb, oculomotor apraxia when asked to look horizontally, depression, personality changes, and, occasionally, Kluver-Bucy syndrome. The neuropsychiatry of FTDP-17 involves apraxia, executive impairment, personality changes, hyperorality, and occasional psychosis. Future research in these Parkinsonian disorders should target the characterization of neuropsychiatric sequelae and their treatment.
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PMID:The neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease and related disorders. 1555 Feb 93

Complaints about sleep disorders and excessive daytime sleepiness are common among patients with multiple system atrophy. The diffuse neurodegenerative process that encompasses the key structures involved in the regulation of the sleep/wake transition and respiratory function may account for these complaints and for the most frequent polysomnographic findings in MSA, i.e., sleep-related breathing disturbances and REM sleep behaviour disorder, which are both treatable conditions. Nocturnal stridor is an inspiratory sound produced by complex vocal cord muscle dysfunction. Often occurring with sleep apnoea, stridor is associated with decreased survival. REM sleep behaviour disorder, a parasomnia characterized by loss of normal skeletal muscle atonia during REM sleep with prominent motor activity, is detected in almost all patients. The pathophysiology of both disorders is partially elucidated but increasing evidence points to the role of basal ganglia dysfunction.
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PMID:Sleep disorders in multiple system atrophy. 1608 9

The patient was a 55-year-old man who had shown progressive dysarthria and unsteady gait since 48 years of age. Neurologically, pure cerebellar ataxia without either pyramidal or extrapyramidal signs was seen. He had been diagnosed as having cortical cerebellar atrophy (CCA) at age 53. Polysomnography was carried out at June 17th, 2003, because of snoring and sleep apnea had occurred since January 2003. The results showed central dominant sleep apnea with an apnea index (AI) of 16.6. Apnea occurred during shallow sleep, stages I and II, while the length of REM sleep was almost normal, occupying 17.7% of total sleep time. The rhythm of his sleep was well preserved. Brain MRI showed cerebellar atrophy without any brainstem abnormality. Except for the central type sleep apnea, no other autonomic symptoms were found. We considered that the diagnosis of CCA remained applicable to the patient because of the presence of pure cerebellar symptoms over a 7-year-course, and the absence of brainstem atrophy on MRI. Sleep apnea seen in the present patient was distinct from MSA in which central type sleep apnea dominated, and that the sleeping rhythm including REM was preserved.
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PMID:[Cortical cerebellar atrophy presenting with central type sleep apnea syndrome]. 1611 30