Thread: informal poll - motor vs non motor
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Old 10-25-2007, 10:57 PM
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boann - the major motor symptoms of PD are not limited to just Parkinson's. You can have a tremor or dystonia or balance problems and not have Parkinson's. Just add depression to the list.

On the other hand, every person dx'd with PD does not have all of the PD symptoms. I have tremor, bradykinesia. Don't have balance problems or rigidity.

But, if you are looking for evidence of PD-specific depression, see zucciniflower's thread started today, Depression in PD: PET study, that cites the following paper http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/...128/6/1314#top

and concludes, "our results suggest that depression in Parkinson's disease is associated with a specific loss of dopamine and noradrenaline innervation of cortical and subcortical components of the limbic system. These results might help in understanding the functional anatomy of depression in Parkinson's disease and have therapeutic implications."
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