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Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis (PDP) is a chronic, severely debilitating, and progressive neurodegenerative illness. PDP was once believed to be primarily a motor dysfunction disease, but it is now known to be multifaceted, encompassing cognitive and neuropsychiatric complications. PDP, which may include visual phenomena, hallucinations, and delusions, has been reported in up to 60% of patients and causes a substantial burden to the patient and their care partners. Early identification and treatment intervention are critical to lessening the patient’s burden. The goal of this educational series is to convince clinicians that integrating routine screening for PDP for all patients with Parkinson’s earlier in their journey is the right thing to do, to uncover PDP symptoms sooner, and to select an approved treatment option for PDP to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
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Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis (PDP) is a chronic, severely debilitating, and progressive neurodegenerative illness. PDP was once believed to be primarily a motor dysfunction disease, but it is now known to be multifaceted, encompassing cognitive and neuropsychiatric complications. PDP, which may include visual phenomena, hallucinations, and delusions, has been reported in up to 60% of patients and causes a substantial burden to the patient and their care partners. Early identification and treatment intervention are critical to lessening the patient’s burden. The goal of this educational series is to convince clinicians that integrating routine screening for PDP for all patients with Parkinson’s earlier in their journey is the right thing to do, to uncover PDP symptoms sooner, and to select an approved treatment option for PDP to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.