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PRODEST Study Shows Many Parkinson's Disease (PD) Patients Continue To Experience Symptoms Despite Receiving Anti-depressant Treatment

Article Date: 01 Sep 2007 - 0:00 PDT

"Preliminary results of the pan-European PRODEST study in 1016 patients with Parkinson`s disease (PD) were presented at the 11th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) in Brussels this week, revealing unique features of PD-related depression and its treatment.1 The study confirmed that depressive symptoms associated with PD are not only highly prevalent, but nearly half (44.1%) of patients receiving antidepressant treatment (n=211) continued to experience depressive symptoms.1"

"These symptoms have a significant impact on PD patients' quality of life, often equal in impact to that of the traditionally better known motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The results suggest that many depressive symptoms are expression of Parkinson`s disease, rather than of a depressive syndrome. This consideration, if supported by further analysis of the PRODEST study results, might suggest different treatment approaches of depression in PD," commented Professor Paolo Barone, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Napoli-Federico II, Naples, Italy, and lead investigator of PRODEST."

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