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Apathy Symptom Report

Apathy is a psychological term for a state of indifference — where an individual is unresponsive or "indifferent" to aspects of emotional, social, or physical life. In Parkinson's disease, apathy may be independent of depression and is likely caused by changes in the frontal lobe of the brain. Read more...Click to read more below


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Symptom Severities

Apathy severity pie chart

Treatments Patients Take For Apathy

Treatments Patients Take For Apathy
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
1 1% Sertraline: 1%

Report created on November 22, 2009.