Psychiatric Morbidity in Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Report

Amitabh Saha

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Psychiatric Morbidity in Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Report

Amitabh Saha

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Psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression are common in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Patients are needed to be managed on a comprehensive basis, in which he can receive psychiatric management along with his medical advice and prescription. Parkinson’s disease is an illness affecting the geriatric age group resulting in debilitating and disfiguring disease associated with the presence of resting tremor, bradykinesia, and postural instability. The prevalence of social anxiety disorder in these patients is important, because further determines the improvement of the patient and his response to drugs.

Published in	American Journal of Life Sciences (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajls.20130102.11
Page(s)	27-30
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2013. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Parkinson’s Disease, Social Phobia, Anxiety Disorder, Debilitating Disorder, Depression, Bradykinesia, Antiparkinson’s Medications

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Department of Psychiatry, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

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