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MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease: MDS-PD Clinical Diagnostic Criteria by Ronald B. Postuma; Daniela Berg; Matthew Stern; Werner Poewe; C. Warren Olanow; Wolfgang Oertel; José Obeso; Kenneth Marek; Irene Litvan; Anthony E. Lang; Glenda Halliday; Christopher G. Goetz; Thomas Gasser; Bruno Dubois; Piu Chan; Bastiaan R. Bloem; Charles H. Adler; Günther Deuschl is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

This document presents the Movement Disorder Society Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson's disease (PD). The Movement Disorder Society PD Criteria are intended for use in clinical research but also may be used to guide clinical diagnosis. The benchmark for these criteria is expert clinical diagnosis; the criteria aim to systematize the diagnostic process, to make it reproducible across centers and applicable by clinicians with less expertise in PD diagnosis. Although motor abnormalities remain central, increasing recognition has been given to nonmotor manifestations; these are incorporated into both the current criteria and particularly into separate criteria for prodromal PD. Similar to previous criteria, the Movement Disorder Society PD Criteria retain motor parkinsonism as the core feature of the disease, defined as bradykinesia plus rest tremor or rigidity. Explicit instructions for defining these cardinal features are included. After documentation of parkinsonism, determination of PD as the cause of parkinsonism relies on three categories of diagnostic features: absolute exclusion criteria (which rule out PD), red flags (which must be counterbalanced by additional suppo

Author

Ronald B. Postuma; Daniela Berg; Matthew Stern; Werner Poewe; C. Warren Olanow; Wolfgang Oertel; José Obeso; Kenneth Marek; Irene Litvan; Anthony E. Lang; Glenda Halliday; Christopher G. Goetz; Thomas Gasser; Bruno Dubois; Piu Chan; Bastiaan R. Bloem; Charles H. Adler; Günther Deuschl

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)