Experts indicate that a number of suicidal risk factors exist for individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Depression is particularly common in people diagnosed with the illness. Around 17% suffer from…
Category: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Depression and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Earlier Detection and Better Outcomes
Symptoms of depression are common with chronic illnesses, especially neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lew Body disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia and others. Some individuals will exhibit symptoms early…
Parkinson’s Disease Dementia: A Quick Overview
Over 1 million people in the United States have Parkinson’s disease and of these, between 50% and 80% will experience dementia. Parkinson’s disease affects 2% of people 65 years of…
Aging with HIV: Special Medical Concerns
Due to the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has become a controllable chronic illness and no longer a death sentence as it was prior to the mid-1990s.…
What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD for short, is a rare and fatal degenerative brain disorder that affects around 1 million people around the world and 350 annually in the United States.…
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An Introduction
Some people call Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig’s Disease or simply ALS. Whatever it’s called, ALS is a devastating and terminal neurodegenerative disease that has a highly predictable clinical course.…