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Are there links between stress and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease?
Author(s)	Guy Page
Journal title	PSIGE Newsletter, no 67, December 1998
Publisher	Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, December 1998
Pages	pp 43-48
Keywords	Parkinson's disease ; Anxiety ; Stress ; Correlation ; Leicestershire ; West Sussex ; East Sussex.
Annotation	The author, a Human Psychology undergraduate at De Montfort University, conducted this study to see if there is any correlation between major operations and/or stressful events and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease (PD). A questionnaire completed by 35 sufferers of PD at annual general meetings of Parkinson's Society branches in Leicestershire and Sussex revealed that as many as 77.14% of the respondents had experienced a major operation or a stressful situation or both in the ten years prior to the diagnosis of PD. Although correlational, this study may indicate that there is indeed a link between stress and the early onset of PD. The author has drawn up a more detailed questionnaire, to continue his research, and to obtain a larger number of respondents than for the first study. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990224007 A
Classmark	CR6: ENP: QNH: 49: 8LE: 8WE: 8E
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