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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Review Open Access Phenomenology and management of cognitive and behavioral disorders in Parkinsons disease. Rise and logic of dementia in Parkinsons disease Constantin Potagas* and Sokratis Papageorgiou Address: Department of Neurology, University of Athens Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece Email: Constantin Potagas* - cpotagas@ath.forthnet.gr; Sokratis Papageorgiou - sokpapa@med.uoa.gr * Corresponding author Published: 08 August 2006 Received: 24 February 2006 Accepted: 08 August 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5:12 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-5-12 This article is available from: /content/5/1/12 © 2006 Potagas and Papageorgiou; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract An overview of studies on the issue of dementia in Parkinsons disease shows that, over time, there has been an evolution in the perception of the magnitude of the problem and of its nature. Dementia seems today to be part of the disease. This change in the understanding of the disease can be accounted for by various methodological problems and by difficulties, on one hand, in the definition of dementia and its differentiation from other conditions, and, on the other hand, in the diagnosi