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Acknowledgments; 1. Background; Part I. Basic Facts about the Brain and Parkinson’s Disease; 2. Primer on the Brain; 3. Parkinson’s Disease: Changes in the Brain and Beyond; Part II. Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis and Prognosis; 4. How do I Know If I Have Parkinson’s Disease?; 5. Prognosis; Part III.; 6. Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson’s Disease; 7. Testing; Part IV. The Cause and Progression of Parkinson’s Disease; 8. Clues to the Cause(s): Genes, Environment; 9. Drugs or Strategies to Slow Parkinson’s Disease Progression?; Part V. The Movement Problems of Parkinson’s Disease: Medication Rationale and Choices; 10. Medications for Movement Problems (Gait, Tremor, Slowness): Background and Rationale; 11. Starting Medical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Movement Problems; Part VI. Beginning Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Medication Guidelines; 12. Starting Levodopa Treatment; 13. Starting Dopamine Agonist Treatment; 14. Refractory Tremor Syndromes: Medications Don’t Help My Tremor!; Part VII. The Early Years on Medications; 15. The First Few Years on Carbidopa/Levodopa Treatment; 16. The Early Years of Parkinson’s Disease If Started on Other Drugs; Part VIII. Later Medication Inconsistency: Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias; 17. Later-Developing Movement Problems: Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias Treated with Levodopa Adjustments; 18. Supplemental Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias; Part IX. Other Treatment Problems: Not Just a Movement Disorder; 19. Subjective Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms Due to Dopamine Deficiency; 20. Sleep Problems: Insomnia, Daytime Sleepiness, and Nighttime Disruptions; 21. Orthostatic Hypotension and Other Causes of Dizziness; 22. Depression; 23. Thinking, Memory, and Dementia; 24. Hallucinations, Paranoia, Delusions, and Problematic Compulsive Behaviors; 25. Problems with Swallowing, Saliva, and Speaking; 26. Managing Digestive Problems and Constipation; 27. Urinary Symptoms; 28. Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, and Menstrual cycles; 29. Other Treatment Problems: Swelling, Skin rashes, and Visual symptoms; Part X. Nutrition, Exercise, Work, and Family; 30. Diets, Vitamins, Nutrition, Osteoporosis; 31. Exercise, Physical Medicine, and Physical Therapy; 32. Family, Friends, the Workplace, and Caregivers; Part XI. Surgery and Procedures for Parkinson’s Disease: Present and Future; 33. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Other Brain Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease; 34. Experimental Treatments: Fetal and Stem Cell Implantation; Neurotrophic Hormone and Gene Therapy; Vaccines and Immunotherapy; Part XII. Parkinson’s Disease Information Services; 35. Support and advocacy groups; the Internet; Glossary; Index

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