Review Article

Management of Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease: Emphasizing Clinical Subtypes and Pathophysiological Mechanisms of the Condition

Table 4

Clinical and demographic features of PD patients with and PD patients without hallucinations after following up prospectively.

PD-mH ()PD-NH
()

Age, y0.06 (t-test)
Education, y0.45 (t-test)
Sex, ♂0.91 ()
Disease duration, months from onset of motor symptoms0.12 (t-test)
UPDRS-III, at baseline0.47 (t-test)
Hoehn & Yahr, at baseline0.19 (t-test)
Predominance of motor symptoms, right%52.365.50.23 ()
Depression, %52.341.40%0.39 ()
Anxiety, %47.648.20.91 ()
Apathy, %42.855.10.47 ()
Insomnia, %38.141.30.68 ()
Daytime sleepiness, %38.127.50.45 ()
RBD, %38.110.30.03 ()
Hyposmia, %33.327.50.80 ()

PD-mH: Parkinson’s disease with minor hallucinations; PD-NH: PD without hallucinations; UPDRS-III: Unified PD Rating Scale, motor section; RBD: REM sleep behaviour disorder; reference: Pagonabarraga et al., 2016 [72].