PARKINSONS & PARKINSONISM-CAUSES
SUMMARY
1. Idiopathic Parkinson's disease
2. Vascular
3. Dopamine-depleting drugs (e.g. reserpine)
4. Dopamine antagonists (e.g. metoclopramide phenothiazines, butyrophenones)
5. Carbon monoxide poisoning, manganese or solvent poisoning
6. Repeated head injury
7. assoc. with Huntington's chorea, fronto-temporal dementia, spinocerebellar ataxia
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