TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive bizarreness in the dream and waking mentation of nonpsychotic patients with Parkinson's disease
AU - D'Agostino, Armando
AU - De Gaspari, Danilo
AU - Antonini, Angelo
AU - Kantzas, Ilde
AU - Limosani, Ivan
AU - Manzone, Maria Laura
AU - Schiavella, Mauro
AU - Paganini, Laura
AU - Siri, Chiara
AU - Rizzi, Pietro
AU - Scarone, Silvio
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Cognitive bizarreness is a shared feature of the dream and waking mentation of acutely psychotic patients. The authors investigated this measure of the structural architecture of thought in the dream and waking mentation of 20 nonpsychotic patients with Parkinson's disease after treatment with prodopaminergic drugs. Statistically overlapping levels of cognitive bizarreness were found in the waking fantasy and dream reports of the Parkinson's disease population, whereas almost no bizarreness was found in the waking cognition of the comparison group, suggesting it may be an inherent quality of cognition in Parkinson's disease patients, possibly related to the cholinergic/dopaminergic imbalance underlying this complex disorder.
AB - Cognitive bizarreness is a shared feature of the dream and waking mentation of acutely psychotic patients. The authors investigated this measure of the structural architecture of thought in the dream and waking mentation of 20 nonpsychotic patients with Parkinson's disease after treatment with prodopaminergic drugs. Statistically overlapping levels of cognitive bizarreness were found in the waking fantasy and dream reports of the Parkinson's disease population, whereas almost no bizarreness was found in the waking cognition of the comparison group, suggesting it may be an inherent quality of cognition in Parkinson's disease patients, possibly related to the cholinergic/dopaminergic imbalance underlying this complex disorder.
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U2 - 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.4.395
DO - 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.4.395
M3 - Article
C2 - 21037124
AN - SCOPUS:78149350560
VL - 22
SP - 395
EP - 400
JO - Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
JF - Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
SN - 0895-0172
IS - 4
ER -