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Sexual wellbeing in Parkinson’s disease

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Dr S F Farmer
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; s.farmer@.ion.ucl.ac.uk

Keywords: Parkinson’s disease

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In this month’s issue (pp 1260–4 and 1323–6) there are two papers that each address different aspects of wellbeing in patients with Parkinson’s disease.^1,2 Their similarity lies in the fact that both relate to aspects of human sexual systems and function. The study by Castelli et al finds small improvements in the sexual wellbeing of men with Parkinson’s disease following therapeutic subthalamic nucleus stimulation.¹ The study by Ready et al² draws our attention to a relationship between feelings of apathy and low serum testosterone levels in men with Parkinson’s disease.²

Although these studies deal with methodologically difficult areas—and as such their conclusions must be treated with caution—they do serve to raise the awareness of practising neurologists to important aspects of their patients’ feelings of wellbeing.

The paper by Castelli and colleagues is the first to systematically evaluate sexual function in Parkinson’s disease patients following subthalamic stimulation.¹ . . . [Full text of this article]