Parkinsonism

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Etiology

  • Parkinson’s disease (idiopathic)
  • Vascular parkinsonism (due to stroke)
  • Essential tremor
  • Depression
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Shy-Drager syndrome
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Drugs causing parkinsonism: antipsychotics, reserpine, metoclopramide
  • West Nile virus

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Etiology

  • Parkinson’s disease (idiopathic)
  • Vascular parkinsonism (due to stroke)
  • Essential tremor
  • Depression
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Shy-Drager syndrome
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Drugs causing parkinsonism: antipsychotics, reserpine, metoclopramide
  • West Nile virus

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