Advances in research on earlier diagnosis of Parkinson's disease / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease in middle-aged and elderly people, mostly manifesting as motor symptoms such as resting tremor, myotonia, motor bradykinesia, postural gait abnormalities, and related non-motor symptoms. It can not be cured, but early intervention can largely alleviate the progress and improve the prognosis of the disease. Currently, there are limited diagnostic methods for PD, which mainly rely on doctors' work experience and patients' clinical manifestations, with a high misdiagnosis rate; therefore, objective and effective diagnostic methods are highly needed. In this paper, we review the research progress of diagnostic techniques for PD.