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“String Hallucinations”: Multimodal Tactile and Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease

By Jesús Pérez-Pérez MD, Javier Pagonabarraga MD, PhD, Ramón Fernández-Bobadilla PhD and Jaime Kulisevsky MD, PhD

The aim of this work was to report on 7 patients presenting a distinctive form of multimodal (tactile and visual) hallucinations for which the term “string hallucinations” is proposed. Having observed a patient interacting with imaginary strips of skin in his hands at our movement disorders unit, we prospectively studied PD patients and caregivers over…

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Diagnostic criteria for psychosis in Parkinson’s disease: Report of an NINDS, NIMH work group

By Bernard Ravina MD, MSCE,*, Karen Marder MD, MPH, Hubert H. Fernandez MD, Joseph H. Friedman MD, William McDonald MD, Diane Murphy PhD, Dag Aarsland MD, Debra Babcock MD, PhD, Jefferey Cummings MD, Jean Endicott PhD, Stewart Factor MD, Wendy Galpern MD, PhD, Andrew Lees MD, Laura Marsh MD, Mark Stacy MD, Katrina Gwinn-Hardy MD, Valerie Voon MD and Christopher Goetz MD

There are no standardized diagnostic criteria for psychosis associated with Parkinson’s disease (PDPsy). As part of an NIH sponsored workshop, we reviewed the existing literature on PDPsy to provide criteria that distinguish PDPsy from other causes of psychosis. Based on these data, we propose provisional criteria for PDPsy in the style of the Diagnostic and…

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