Panel member Dr. Irene Litvan, director of the movement disorders program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), said she agreed that Parkinson's disease dementia is “a clear neurological entity.”
While criteria for making the clinical diagnosis of dementia associated with Parkinson's are needed, Dr. Litvan, who is Raymond Lee Lebby professor of Parkinson's disease research at the university, said that for now, she “believe[s] that a neurologist will be able to apply the simple criteria and make a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease dementia and be able to treat it.”