2018 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 257-264
A new guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) will be launched in 2018. In this symposium, I focused on the clinical diagnosis of PD. Firstly, the new clinical criteria for PD launched by Movement Disorder Society in 2015 was introduced. Then important non–motor symptoms to make a diagnosis of PD, such as REM sleep behavior disorders, olfactory dysfunction, and constipation were explained. Finally, neuroimaging tools including brain MRI, MIBG cardiac scintigraphy, dopamine transporter scintigraphy, brain perfusion scintigraphy, and transcranial sonography were present in detailed. These non–motor symptoms and neuroimaging findings extremely contribute to the clinical diagnosis of PD.
