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It is not possible for patients to predict their driving safety from a motor examination or the patient’s own judgement
Patients with Parkinson’s disease are usually advised to inform the driving licensing authority and their driving insurance company of the diagnosis. However, until a few years ago, Parkinson’s disease was not considered a major obstacle to safe driving until the advanced stages. This changed when in 1999 sudden onset sleep attacks in patients with Parkinson’s disease on dopaminergic drugs were first reported.1 This not only led to considerable concern about the safe use of dopaminergic drugs in patients who drive, but also to a flurry of studies investigating the frequency of the problem, the contributing …
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