The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease

by Patrick McNamara

A detailed examination of the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease and a cognitive theory that accounts for their neurology and phenomenology.

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer most visibly with such motor deficits as tremor and rigidity and less obviously with a range of nonmotor symptoms, including autonomic dysfunction, mood disorders, and cognitive impairment. The neuropsychiatric disturbances of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016087
• ISBN13: 9780262016087
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher