Publications by authors named "Petra Gutting"
Article Synopsis
- Health services need to address both physical and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, with a focus on nonpharmacological interventions like cognitive rehabilitation.
- Cognitive rehabilitation involves setting personalized goals to improve functional independence, an area where there has been little research in early-stage patients with these conditions.
- Interviews with 29 participants revealed that they are capable of setting meaningful goals related to learning new skills and managing daily tasks, indicating potential areas for therapeutic focus and intervention.
Background: There is growing interest in developing non-pharmacological treatments to address the cognitive deficits apparent in Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Cognitive rehabilitation is a goal-oriented behavioural intervention which focuses on improving everyday functioning through management of cognitive difficulties; it has been shown to be effective in Alzheimer's disease. To date, no studies have assessed its potential efficacy for addressing the impact of cognitive impairment in people with Parkinson's disease or dementia with Lewy bodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In healthy volunteers, exposure to antidepressants increases the recognition of positive face emotions and decreases recognition of negative emotions. It has been proposed that this may underlie therapeutic effects of antidepressants, but to date this has not been tested in clinical populations.
Method: Recognition of facial emotions was measured at baseline (N=108) and after 2 (N=59) and 6 weeks (N=69) of treatment in depressed primary care patients who had been randomised to treatment with either citalopram (SSRI) or reboxetine (NaRI) in an open-label study.