Psychiatry of Parkinsons disease : ... and 12 tables Psychiatric symptoms are common in the neurological and geriatric care of patients with Parkinson’s disease. This book assembles short reviews from experts in the field to chart the various psychiatric syndromes known in Parkinson’s disease their presentation etiology and management. Presented are special topics on epidemiology of psychiatric symptoms affective disorders and apathy early cognitive impairment through to dementia visuoperceptual dysfunction psychotic disorders sleep disturbances impulse disorders and sexual problems. Further rarely discussed issues such as the relationship between somatoform disorders and parkinsonism are reviewed. This publication is essential reading for old age psychiatrists gerontologists and neurologists who work with patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. In addition health practitioners who deal with senior patients as well as scientists who need a quick update on the progress in this important clinical field will find this volume a helpful reference.