This collection of review articles provides detailed clinical descriptions and treatment recommendations for the important, but often unrecognized, nonmotor dysfunctions of Parkinson's disease. Topics range from behavioral abnormalities and autonomic dysfunction to sleep-related and sensory dysfunction, and include depression and anxiety, dementia, psychosis, obsessionality, gastric and intestinal dysfunction, impaired sexual function, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and sleep apnea. The authors review what is known about each type of dysfunction, discussing clinical features, methods of diagnosis, and treatment.

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Ronald F. Pfeiffer, MD University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Neurology, Memphis, TN, USA

Ivan Bodis-Wollner, MD, DSc SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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The first edition of Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction was published in 2005 to provide a source of detailed information that could be readily accessed by the practicing physician. The widely praised first edition described and explained these nonmotor features that had at that point received insufficient attention both in the medical and in the lay literature. Since the publication of the first edition, awareness and knowledge of the nonmotor features of PD has dramatically expanded, calling for a new edition of this important title. Timely, fully updated and expanded, Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction, Second Edition, offers a state-of-the-art overview of the topic from the same talented group of experienced researchers and clinicians who were the driving force behind the first edition. Importantly, a range of additional aspects of nonmotor dysfunction in PD -- such as dermatological, vestibular, and dental dysfunction -- have been included in this second edition, which remains subdivided into five diverse domains: Behavioral abnormalities, autonomic dysfunction, sleep-related dysfunction, sensory dysfunction, and other aspects of PD such as oculomotor dysfunction, fatigue, and maxillofacial issues. An invaluable contribution to the literature in movement disorders, this revised and expanded collection of contributions by an even larger contingent of superbly knowledgeable authors will further increase awareness of the manifold contributions that nonmotor features may make to the collective clinical picture experienced by the patient with PD.

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Depression in Parkinson's Disease: An Update.- Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease.- Obsessionality.- Dementia.- Psychosis.- Postsurgical Behavioral Changes.- Apathy in Parkinson`s Disease.- Dysphagia.- Gastric Function In Parkinson's Disease.- Intestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Impaired Sexual Function.- Urological Dysfunction.- Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Thermoregulatory Dysfunction In Parkinson's Disease.- Respiratory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Dermatological Disorders In Parkinson's Disease.- Insomnia in Parkinson's Disease.- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder.- Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Parkinson's Disease.- Sleep Apnea.- Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.- Primary Visual and Visuocognitive Deficits.- Olfactory Dysfunction.- Pain in Parkinson's Disease: Pathophysiology, Classification and Clinical Approach.- Vestibular Dysfunction.- Oculomotor Dysfunction In Parkinson's Disease.- Fatigue: A Common Comorbidity in Parkinson's Disease.- Maxillofacial Signs and Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease and their Dental Management.