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Mastering nocturnal jigsaws in Parkinson’s disease: a dusk-to-dawn review of night-time symptoms

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Finding out about night-time symptoms from Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients can be a challenge as many patients and their carers cannot recall many symptoms that occur during the night, resulting in an under-recognition or a large variability of responses from clinical interviews and scales. Moreover, technology-based assessments for most night-time symptoms are still not universally available for use in a patient’s home environment. Therefore, most physicians rely on their clinical acumen to capture these night-time symptoms based on pieces of patients’ history, bedpartner’s reports, clinical features, associated symptoms or conditions. To capture more night-time symptoms, the authors identified common nocturnal symptoms based on how they manifest from dusk to dawn with selected features relevant to PD. While some symptoms occur in healthy individuals, in PD patients, they may impact differently. The authors intend this narrative review to provide a practical guide on how these common night-time symptoms manifest and highlight pertinent issues by focusing on prevalence, clinical symptomatology, and specific relationships to PD. It is also important to recognise that PD-specific sleep disturbances increase with advancing disease with additional contributions from ageing, comorbidities, and medication side effects. However, the relative contribution of each factor to individual symptom may be different in individual patient, necessitating clinical expertise for individual interpretation. While there are debatable issues in certain areas, they underlie the complexity of night-time symptoms. Understanding night-time symptoms in PD is like re-arranging jigsaw pieces of clinical information to create, but never complete, a picture for physicians to instigate appropriate management.

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adopted from the review article on the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (Lim and Lang 2010)

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Roongroj Bhidayasiri is supported by Thailand Science Research and Innovation Grant (RTA6280016), International Research Network Grant (IRN59W0005) of the Thailand Research Fund, Chulalongkorn Academic Advancement Fund into Its 2nd Century Project of Chulalongkorn University (2300042200), and Center of Excellence Grant of Chulalongkorn University (GCE 6100930004-1).

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Bhidayasiri, R., Sringean, J. & Trenkwalder, C. Mastering nocturnal jigsaws in Parkinson’s disease: a dusk-to-dawn review of night-time symptoms. J Neural Transm 127, 763–777 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-020-02170-6

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