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Assessment of sleepiness and unintended sleep in Parkinson's disease patients taking dopamine agonists

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The results of this study suggest SEs in PD patients occur upon a background of excessive daytime sleepiness and are unrelated to nocturnal sleep or use of a specific DA.
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This article is published in Sleep Medicine.The article was published on 2003-07-01. It has received 93 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Excessive daytime sleepiness & Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

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Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms

TL;DR: These findings explain how various drugs affect sleep and wakefulness, and provide the basis for a wide range of environmental influences to shape wake–sleep cycles into the optimal pattern for survival.
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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine

R. Stafford
- 28 Feb 2001 - 
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The scientific and clinical basis for the treatment of Parkinson disease (2009)

TL;DR: This monograph provides an overview of the management of PD patients, with an emphasis on pathophysiology, and the results of recent clinical trials to provide physicians with an understanding of the different treatment options that are available for managing the different stages of the disease and the scientific rationale of theDifferent approaches.
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Depression in Parkinson's disease – a review

TL;DR: Observations and reports of depression during deep brain stimulation of regions contiguous to the substantia nigra, as well as reports of dopamine agonist improving depression, suggest depression, rather than being mainly a psychological reaction to a debilitating disease, is part of Parkinson's disease.
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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine

TL;DR: Part 1: Normal Sleep and Its Variations; Part 2: Abnormal Sleep.
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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine

R. Stafford
- 28 Feb 2001 - 
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Sleepiness in different situations measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

TL;DR: The results of nonparametric ANOVA, Spearman correlations, Wilcoxon's t tests, item and factor analysis suggest that individual measurements of SP involve three components of variation in addition to short-term changes over periods of hours or days.
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Falling asleep at the wheel: motor vehicle mishaps in persons taking pramipexole and ropinirole.

TL;DR: A new side effect of the dopamine agonists pramipexole and ropinirole: sudden irresistible attacks of sleep that causes patients to fall asleep while driving, causing accidents.
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