Dementia Registry for Parkinson's Disease

Launched by CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL · Nov 30, 2010

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. The patient who is diagnosed as clinical PD with and without dementia according to the DSM-IV criteria \[3\] will be invited for this study. The diagnosis of clinical PD is according to the UK Parkinson's Disease Society Brain Bank clinical diagnostic criteria \[17\]. The initial symptom more than one year of clinical PD will be invited for this study.
• • 2. A reliable caregiver who lives with the subjects or has at least 10 hours/week of contact with the subject.
• • 3. Males and females between the ages of 50 and 90 years, inclusive.
• • 4. Adequate visual and auditory abilities to perform all aspects of the study assessments.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Presence of any of the following criteria will exclude the subject from enrollment in the study:
• • 1. Significant neurological disease other than PD that may affect cognition.
• • 2. Current clinically important systemic illness that is likely to result in deterioration of the subject's condition or affect the subject's safety during the study.
• • 3. History of clinically evident stroke.
• • 4. History of seizures within the past 5 years
• • 5. Myocardial infarction within the past one year prior to screening
• • 6. Current DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence (including alcohol abuse or dependence but excluding nicotine dependence) or history of substance dependence within the past 2 years to screening.
• • 7. Regular use of anticholingeric drugs within 60 days prior to screening.
• • 8. The subject received deep brain stimulation