Anxiety and depression is a precursor to Parkinson's
Parkinson's is a disease of the elderly susceptible, it will affect the normal activities and life of the elderly. Many people in the early stages of illness, do not know is how its political expression, so it is easy to overlook what a prelude to more performance, then, what is the performance of Parkinson disease is it? You know how it is suffering from Parkinson's? Let's just take a look at it experts.
Anxiety and depression can lead to Parkinson's?
We all know the symptoms of Parkinson's dyskinesia, tremors and muscle stiffness, and recent studies have found that patients with Parkinson disease is often associated with affective disorders, including anxiety or depression.
? Why Parkinson's patients anxiety or depression it mainly in the following three reasons: a direct result of brain damage neuroendocrine changes, neurological deficits, cognitive disorders; due to functional disability, pain, or the rhythm of life in patients with the disease after being hit chaos, so that damage to self-esteem, and thus appear emotional instability, irritability, insomnia, nervousness and other symptoms; patients before the disease have premorbid individual neurosis or mental defect quality, sensitive, suspicious, demanding perfection, self-centered, etc. problem.
About 40% of Parkinson's patients with anxiety symptoms in the mental anxiety and somatic anxiety. Patients often feel inexplicable fear, fear, tension and anxiety, often restless, restless, hand-wringing in the corner, he strolled around, increased petty, inability to concentrate, do not know why it is so anxious. In severe cases, that there is some disaster strikes, even a sense of impending doom.
30% to 40% of Parkinson's patients with depressive symptoms. Patients often become sad, depressed, indifferent to things around, irritability, easy to cry, to feel poor physical condition, have more discomfort and so on. Since aggravating movement disorders, the patient is difficult to complete the work previously familiar, decreased quality of life, psychological burden, causing and aggravating depression. The depression will increase the movement disorders.
Currently a large number of studies show that anxiety or depression may be an inherent symptoms of Parkinson's disease. It is worth noting, anxiety or depression and Parkinson's disease progression is not necessarily related, there is a considerable portion of patients with early symptoms of anxiety or depression. Another study found that some patients with anxiety or depression, Parkinson's disease may occur in subsequent years. Therefore, some experts believe that anxiety or depression is likely to be a precursor to Parkinson's disease, and in some patients with Parkinson's disease has been diagnosed in the first onset of symptoms of anxiety or depression, as early as shaking, slow like.
Parkinson's disease with anxiety or depression treatment is a more difficult problem, because many of efficacy for the treatment of anxiety or depression with drugs for Parkinson's disease symptoms of anxiety or depression has not been confirmed. Recent studies have shown that dopamine receptor agonist pramipexole for Parkinson's disease depression have a certain effect. During drug treatment, the patient should enhance self-confidence, self-relax, maintaining optimism, to divert attention, to maintain adequate sleep, more exercise, develop personal hobbies.
In short, in normal life, as long as there have been felt Parkinson's symptoms, they should go to hospital for examination, as well as Parkinson's patients have regular visits to the hospital.
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