Isabelle Rieu, Pablo Martinez-Martin, Bruno Pereira, Ingrid De Chazeron, Leo Verhagen Metman, Marjan Jahanshahi, Claire Ardouin, Isabelle Chéreau, Christine Brefel-Courbon, Fabienne Ory-Magne, Helene Klinger, Fleur Peyrol, Michael Schupbach, Kathy Dujardin, François Tison, Jean Luc Houeto, Paul Krack, Franck Durif
The "Ardouin Scale of Behavior in Parkinson's Disease" is a new instrument specifically designed for assessing mood and behavior with a view to quantifying changes related to Parkinson's disease, to dopaminergic medication, and to non-motor fluctuations. This study was aimed at analyzing the psychometric attributes of this scale in patients with Parkinson's disease without dementia. In addition to this scale, the following measures were applied: the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, the Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale, the Lille Apathy Rating Scale, the Bech and Rafaelsen Mania Scale, the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, the MacElroy Criteria, the Patrick Carnes criteria, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview...
April 15, 2015: Movement Disorders: Official Journal of the Movement Disorder Society