Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Options
matthew.hastings@ucdenver.edu (Matthew Hastings)
Heightened sensitivity in people with Parkinson’s disease can evolve into one of the scarier and lesser-known non-motor symptoms of the neurological disease: psychosis.
Seeing things that aren’t there, believing their grandchild is an imposter, or suspecting their spouse is having an affair are all things that can happen to patients that they might shy away from sharing with their providers.
“It's common that these kinds of symptoms aren't picked up on right away by the family or clinician...