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Dr Tabish Saifee
Queen Square Private Healthcare
What are the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease?
Dr Tabish Saifee, a Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square, says historically Parkinson’s disease was considered a movement disorder due to the presence of many motor movement symptoms but there are a wide range of non motor symptoms such as loss of smell, emotion and cognitive deficits as well as depression.
Transcript
Classically, we've always thought of Parkinson's disease as a movement disorder that reflects some of the main symptoms, which tend to be stiffness in the limbs, in the arms and legs, a shake or a tremor, for example, of the hand, and also slowness of movement. So movements tend to slow down including walking. There are a host of other what we call non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease, which are also very important in some patients of ours with Parkinson's disease experience these as well, and these can range from anything, from loss of sense of smell to depression and constipation and many others.
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