Bastiaan R. Bloem

The Emerging Evidence of the Parkinson Pandemic

Neurological disorders are now the leading source of disability globally, and the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world is Parkinson disease. From 1990 to 2015, the...

Parkinson's disease

MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease

Abstract This document presents the Movement Disorder Society Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson's disease (PD). The Movement Disorder Society PD Criteria are intended f...

MDS research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease

ABSTRACT This article describes research criteria and probability methodology for the diagnosis of prodromal PD. Prodromal disease refers to the stage wherein early symptoms or ...

Time to redefine PD? Introductory statement of the MDS Task Force on the definition of Parkinson's disease

ABSTRACT With advances in knowledge disease, boundaries may change. Occasionally, these changes are of such a magnitude that they require redefinition of the disease. In recogni...