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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Background and Rationale | |
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| Basic Facts about the Brain and Parkinson's Disease | |
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| A Primer on the Brain | |
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| Parkinson's Disease: Changes in the Brain and Beyond | |
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| Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Prognosis | |
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| How Do I Know If I Have Parkinson's Disease? | |
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| Prognosis | |
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| Distinguishing Parkinson's Disease from Other Disorders | |
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| Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Testing: Blood Tests, X rays, and Scans | |
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| The Cause and Progression of Parkinson's Disease | |
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| The Causes of PD: What We Know and Where This Is Leading Us | |
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| Are There Drugs amd Strategies to Slow PD Progression? | |
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| The Movement Problems of Parkinson's Disease: Medication Rationale and Choices | |
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| Medications for Movement Problems (Gait, Tremor, Slowness) | |
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| Starting Treatment of Movement Problems: Which Drug and When | |
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| Beginning Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: Medication Guidelines | |
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| Starting Levodopa Treatment | |
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| Starting Dopamine Agonist Treatment | |
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| Refractory Tremor Syndromes: "Medications Don't Help My Tremor!" | |
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| The Early Years on Medications | |
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| The First Few Years on Carbidopa/Levodopa Treatment | |
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| The First Few Years on a Dopamine Agonist Drug (Pramipexole, Ropinirole, or Pergolide) | |
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| Later Medication Inconsistency: Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias | |
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| Movement Problems That Develop Later: Dyskinesias, Motor Fluctuations, and Treatment with Levodopa Adjustments | |
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| Supplemental Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias | |
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| Other Treatment Problems: Not Just a Movement Disorder | |
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| Subjective Symptoms That May Respond to Levodopa or Dopamine Agonists | |
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| Sleep Problems: Insomnia, Daytime Sleepiness, and Disruptions During the Night | |
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| Dizziness and Orthostatic Hypotension | |
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| Depression | |
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| Thinking, Memory, and Dementia | |
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| Crazy Ideas, Visions, and Behavior: Hallucinations, Paranoia, Delusions, and Hypersexuality | |
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| Problems with Swallowing, Saliva, and Speaking | |
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| Managing Digestive Problems and Constipation | |
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| Urinary Symptoms | |
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| Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, and Menstrual Cycles | |
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| Treating Other Problems: Swelling, Skin Rashes, and Visual Symptoms | |
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| Nutrition, Exercise, Work, and Family | |
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| Diet, Nutrition, and Osteoporosis | |
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| The Role of Exercise, Physical Medicine, and Physical Therapy | |
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| Family, Friends, the Workplace, and Caregivers | |
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| Surgery and Procedures for Parkinson's Disease: Present and Future | |
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| Brain Surgery for PD Symptoms: Thalamotomy, Pallidotomy, and Deep Brain Stimulation | |
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| Experimental Treatments: Fetal and Stem Cell Implantation, Neurotrophic Hormones, and Gene Therapy | |
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| Parkinson's Disease Information Sources | |
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| Support and Advocacy Groups, and the Internet | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |