{"title":"The Many Faces of Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Sarah Horn, Howard Hurtig","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>The total cost of Parkinson disease (PD), which affects nearly 1 million people in the US is $52 billion every year, with $25.4 billion attributable to direct medical costs such as hospitalizations and medication, and $26.5 billion in non-medical costs like missed work, lost wages, early forced retirement, and family caregiver time. The more we know about PD's non-motor symptoms-depression, dementia, fatigue, and others-the better we can treat, and perhaps find a cure, for this neurological disorder</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":72553,"journal":{"name":"Cerebrum : the Dana forum on brain science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075504/pdf/cer-08-19.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cerebrum : the Dana forum on brain science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2019/7/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The total cost of Parkinson disease (PD), which affects nearly 1 million people in the US is $52 billion every year, with $25.4 billion attributable to direct medical costs such as hospitalizations and medication, and $26.5 billion in non-medical costs like missed work, lost wages, early forced retirement, and family caregiver time. The more we know about PD's non-motor symptoms-depression, dementia, fatigue, and others-the better we can treat, and perhaps find a cure, for this neurological disorder.