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ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2007

Prodromal non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Clelia Pellicano, Dario Benincasa, Vincenzo Pisani, Francesca R Buttarelli, Morena Giovannelli, Francesco E Pontieri

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Article in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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60citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. TMS and tDCS as potential tools for the treatment of cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  3. The heterogeneity of non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Clelia PellicanoDipartimento di Scienze, Neurologiche, II Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia; Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
Dario Benincasa
Vincenzo Pisani
Francesca R Buttarelli
Morena Giovannelli
Francesco E Pontieri
Sapienza University of Rome · ITFondazione Santa Lucia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), bradykinesia, muscular rigidity, and tremor depend upon degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Recent neuropathological studies show that the Lewy bodies, the intraneuronal landmark of PD, accumulate in several neuronal cell types in the brain. An ascending gradient of pathological involvement, from the medulla oblongata to neocortical areas has been reported. Thus the original view of PD as a disease characterized by selective damage of the dopaminergic neurons in the mesencephalon should be updated into the concept of a severe multisystemic neurodegenerative disorder. Additionally, the neuropathological alterations outside the substantia nigra are soundly correlated with the non-motor symptoms of PD. As a result of these findings, interest is growing in the identification of prodromal non-motor symptoms of PD. Indeed, data from the literature suggest that autonomic disturbances, olfactory dysfunctions, depression and sleep disorders (in particular REM-sleep behavior disorder) may represent prodromal non-motor symptoms of PD. Several tests are available to detect most of these symptoms. Thus, the identification of prodromal non-motor symptoms may contribute to the precocious diagnosis of PD, and might be useful in the future to test the efficacy of neuroprotective agents.

Indexed as

autonomic dysfunctiondepressionnon-motor symptomsolfactory dysfunctionParkinson’s diseaseRBD

Identifiers

PMID19300544
PMCPMC2654529
OpenAlexW2003647394

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