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Around 50% of Parkinson's disease patients experience motor fluctuations after long‐term treatment with levodopa. These fluctuations may be accompanied by mood fluctuations. Routine cross‐sectional assessments cannot capture the extent of… Click to show full abstract
Around 50% of Parkinson's disease patients experience motor fluctuations after long‐term treatment with levodopa. These fluctuations may be accompanied by mood fluctuations. Routine cross‐sectional assessments cannot capture the extent of these motor and mood fluctuations and their possible associations. Experience sampling techniques that use frequently repeated measurements of symptoms over time are able to capture such fluctuations. Based on such data, longitudinal associations between symptoms can be studied using network analysis.
Journal Title: Movement Disorders
Year Published: 2018
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