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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA – Certain antidepressants appear to decrease depression in people with Parkinson’s disease without worsening motor problems, according to a study published in a recent online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. It is estimated that of the nearly one million Americans who have Parkinson’s disease, half suffer from depression.
“Depression dramatically impacts the quality of life for those who are living with Parkinson’s disease,” says co-principal investigator William McDonald, MD, JB Fuqua Chair for Late-Life Depression and Vice-Chair for Education, Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. “This study offers hope because it shows that we can now safely treat depression in these patients without exacerbating other symptoms of Parkinson’s.”
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