Therapy of Parkinson's Disease

Abstract

Part 1 History of Parkinson's disease: the history of the medical therapy of Parkinson's disease. Part 2 Assessment, symptoms and sign, and basis of therapy: clinical rating scales and videotape analysis quantitative techniques of assessing motor disability therapies to extend duration of levodopa action magnetic resonance imaging and PET investigations of Parkinson's disease. Part 3 Pharmacologic agents: anticholinergic drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease amantadine in Parkinson's disease biochemical basis for levodopa therapy levodopa-based therapy levodopa infusion therapy long-acting levodopa preparations intracerebroventricular infusion of dopaminergic drugs dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease the influence of bromocriptine on levodopa lisuride - a direct dopamine agonist in the treatment of Parkinson's disease pergolide. Part 4 Surgical approaches: stereotactic thalamotomies the effects of unilateral ventral-posterior medical pallidotoing in patients with Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's plus syndromes chronic high frequency thalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease scientific basis for dopaminergic brain grafting transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to brain in Parkinson's disease neurotransplantation. Part 5 Diet in therapy: dietary issues in the treatment of Parkinsonism management of late Parkinson's disease with L-Dopa - role of dietary protein redistribution. Part 6 Other therapeutic approaches: nondopaminergic therapy in Parkinson's disease treatment of autonomic nervous system disturbances in Parkinson's disease management of behavioral symptoms in Parkinson's disease treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease management of psychosis in Parkinson's disease electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson's disease. (Part Contents).