Daniel van Wamelen, AAN 2019 – Targeting non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (Part 1)

Daniel van Wamelen (The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, King’s College London, UK) discusses non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the repurposing of existing medication in PD to target new areas such as cognition.

 

Questions

1. What are the current unmet needs in the treatment of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD)? (0:04)
2. How important are non-motor symptoms in PD and could you give some examples? (1:49)
3. Could you talk a bit about current treatment strategies for non-motor symptoms? (3:09)

 

View Part 2 of this expert interview here.

 

Speaker disclosure: Daniel van Wamelen has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

 

Filmed at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, May 2019.