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Apologize for my ignorance but is parkinson disease falls in mental illness category?
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No-Neurodegenerative: There are patients with parkinson diseaes who get dementia. There are many patients who get bradyphrenia, which means a slowness of processing information. Many, many patients get depression. Overall, however, we do not consider it a mental illness. It is a degenerative neurological movement disorder.
Answered 10/20/2016
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