title: 2015 Update on Parkinson disease.
abstract: Parkinson disease is still diagnosed by clinical signs, and its most effective treatment is still levodopa. However, an improved understanding of the disease is leading to new diagnostic tools and treatments.
authors.affiliation: Section Head, Center for Neuro-Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. E-mail: fernanh@ccf.org.|Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Hubert H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Fernandez
mesh_terms: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D063189:Symptom Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D007980:Levodopa