Gain expertise in caring for patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders as you learn:
- to distinguish Parkinson’s disease from other look-alike syndromes, including Alzheimer’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, essential tremor and olivo-pontocerebellar atrophy
- to choose medications for early (no gait disorder or fluctuations) versus later stages of Parkinson’s disease
- adverse effects for common anti-Parkinsonian drugs
- when to use tacrine in early Alzheimer’s disease (no delusions or depression) and psychotropic drugs for later stages
- to diagnose and treat Tourette’s syndrome, Huntington’s disease, Wilson’s disease and dystonia