ArticleJournal of Parkinson's disease2024
The Last Straw: How Stress Can Unmask Parkinson's Disease.
Article in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Systematic review of movement disorders mislabeled as functional: when incongruence misleads.Journal of neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Parkinson's Disease: Pathophysiology, Treatment Strategies, Wellness Approaches, and Obstacles/Paths Forward.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- From Stress to Neurodegeneration: A New Look at the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Lifestyle medicine in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Shades of grey: The continuum of therapies for Parkinson's disease along the spectrum of credibility.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2025Review
- Balancing practicality and complexity in neuroimaging models of Parkinson's disease progression.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
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Abstract
We discuss two people with Parkinson's disease (PD), in whom tremor manifested directly following a severely stressful event. Both were initially misdiagnosed with a functional neurological disorder. These stories highlight that stress can trigger the onset of clinical manifestations of PD, by unveiling an underlying disease that had been unfolding for many years. Thus, the sudden symptom onset after a stressful event is not unique to functional disorders, and may lead to avoidable feelings of guilt if people wrongly attribute PD to this event. It remains unclear what mechanism explains this phenomenon, and why symptoms persist after the stressful event has passed.
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