Cognitive Bizarreness in the Dream and Waking Mentation of Nonpsychotic Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Cognitive bizarreness is a shared feature of the dream and waking mentation of acutely psychotic patients. The authors investigated this measure of the structural architecture of thought in the dream and waking mentation of 20 nonpsychotic patients with Parkinson's disease after treatment with...

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Published in:The journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2010-10, Vol.22 (4), p.395-400
Main Authors: D'Agostino, Armando, De Gaspari, Danilo, Antonini, Angelo, Kantzas, Ilde, Limosani, Ivan, Manzone, Maria Laura, Schiavella, Mauro, Paganini, Laura, Siri, Chiara, Rizzi, Pietro, Scarone, Silvio
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases
Medical sciences
Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes)
Nervous system as a whole
Neurology
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
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Summary:Cognitive bizarreness is a shared feature of the dream and waking mentation of acutely psychotic patients. The authors investigated this measure of the structural architecture of thought in the dream and waking mentation of 20 nonpsychotic patients with Parkinson's disease after treatment with prodopaminergic drugs. Statistically overlapping levels of cognitive bizarreness were found in the waking fantasy and dream reports of the Parkinson's disease population, whereas almost no bizarreness was found in the waking cognition of the comparison group, suggesting it may be an inherent quality of cognition in Parkinson's disease patients, possibly related to the cholinergic/dopaminergic imbalance underlying this complex disorder.
ISSN:0895-0172
1545-7222
DOI:10.1176/jnp.2010.22.4.395