Psychiatric profile of motor subtypes of de novo drug-naïve Parkinson's disease patients.
Francesca AssognaClelia PellicanoLuca CravelloCinzia SaviniMariangela PierantozziBruno MercuriCarlo CaltagironeFrancesco Ernesto PontieriGianfranco SpallettaAlessandro StefaniPublished in: Brain and behavior (2018)
Our results suggest that a differentiation of the psychiatric symptoms associated with specific motor subtypes of PD is not detectable in de novo drug-naïve patients. Previous evidence that emerges later along the disease progression may be a consequence of the dopaminergic and nondopaminergic damage increase.