Solvay Pharmaceuticals
European Neurological Review Supplement

Welcome to this supplement to our European Neurological Review journal, which focuses on cutting edge work in the field of advanced Parkinson's disease. Based on a one-day symposium organised by Solvay Pharmaceuticals, this supplement contains papers written by the eight distinguished speakers at the symposium that discuss the latest research and sophisticated clinical practice. Topics covered include involving the patient in their own treatment, the economic burden of Parkinson’s disease, the effects of continuous dopaminergic stimulation and issues concerning quality of life. If you would like to receive a hard copy of this publication, please click here.

 

Papers include:


Challenges in the Long-term Evolution
of Parkinson’s Disease

José Obeso


Illustrations of Physiotherapy
Intervention in Parkinson’s Disease

Mariella Graziano


STN-DBS – Quality of Life and
Influence of Ageing

Patricia Limousin


Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation
in Spanish Patients with Late
Parkinson’s Disease

Francesc Valldeoriola


The Therapeutic Place of Duodopa
Jens Volkmann

Contents

Introduction

Michelle Grayson
Touch Briefings, London, UK

Involving the Patient

José A Obeso
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Mary G Baker
Woking, Surrey, UK

Economic Burden

Richard Dodel, Jens-Peter Reese, Monika Balzer and Wolfgang H Oertel
Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Quality of Life Issues

Mariella Graziano
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Patricia Limousin
Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
Johan Samanta
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ

Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation

Francesc Valldeoriola
Institut de Neurociències, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Jens Volkmann
Neurology Clinic, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany