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Originally Posted by boann
Hi Lindy,
I hope you’re well! As part of my amateur research article on what I called side effect creep, I didn’t find any references to hallucinations in Parkinson’s prior to the introduction of levodopa.
I’m considering undertaking the same research, only this time doing it in a scientifically rigorous fashion, and I don’t want to miss anything that might be out there.
Can you direct me to the research you refer to above?
Thank you!
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Hi Boann,
I do not remember where I first saw this referred to, but have come across references in older texts about PD. Also met with an elderly psychiatric nurse about three or four years ago who discussed with me at length how PD at one time was largely treated as a psychiatric disorder, and how distressing it was to be unable to find treatments. He described the introduction of levodopa, which many at the time believed was the cure, and their disappointment at the emergence of side effects.
This is of course very anecdotal so here is a link that refers too hallucinations as being a historic cause for Pwp being treated in nursing homes. I have a clear idea that the original text I found was published around 1970, and when located ill post it here for you. It was not research, it was if I remember rightly a medical textbook of the time.
http://www.nature.com/nrneurol/journ...l.2009.62.html
This is a detailed discussion of the subject, very well referenced.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/123/4/733.full