Task Force on Rating Scales for PD

Anette Schrag, Chair

MDS Staff Liaison: Heidi Schudrowitz

Steering Committee Members

Christopher Goetz
Werner Poewe
Olivier Rascol
Cristina Sampaio
Glenn Stebbins

Task Force Report on Scales to Assess Dyskinesia in Parkinson’s Disease: Critique and Recommendations Carlo Colosimo, Pablo Martínez-Martín, Giovanni Fabbrini, Robert A. Hauser, Marcelo Merello, Janis Miyasaki, Werner Poewe, Cristina Sampaio, Olivier Rascol, Glenn T. Stebbins, Anette Schrag, Christopher G. Goetz; Movement Disorders 2010; 25(9): 1131–1142.

Fatigue Rating Scales Critique and Recommendations by the Movement Disorders Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson’s Disease Joseph H. Friedman, Guido Alves, Peter Hagell, Johan Marinus, Laura Marsh, Pablo Martinez-Martin, Christopher G. Goetz, Werner Poewe, Olivier Rascol, Cristina Sampaio, Glenn Stebbins, Anette Schrag; Movement Disorders 2010; 25(7): 805-822.

Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson's Disease. The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS): Status and recommendations. Movement Disorders 2003; 18(7):738-750.

Movement Disorder Society Task Force report on the Hoehn and Yahr staging scale: Status and recommendations. Goetz CG, Poewe W, Rascol O, Sampaio C, Stebbin GT, Counsell C, Giladi N, Holloway RG, Moore CG, Wennig GK, Yahr MD, Seidl L. Movement Disorders 2004; 19(9): 1020-1028.

Depression rating scales in Parkinson's disease: critique and recommendations. Schrag A, Barone P, Brown RG, Leetjens AF, McDonald Wm, Starkstein S, Weinbraub D, Poewe W, Rascol O, Sampaio C, Stebbins GT, Goetz CG. Movement Disorders 2007; 22(8):1077-1092.

Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan. Christopher G. Goetz, Stanley Fahn, Pablo Martinez-Martin, Werner Poewe, Cristina Sampaio, Glenn T. Stebbins, Matthew B. Stern, Barbara C. Tilley, Richard Dodel, Bruno Dubois, Robert Holloway, Joseph Jankovic, Jaime Kulisevsky, Anthony E. Lang, Andrew Lees, Sue Leurgans, Peter A. LeWitt, David Nyenhuis, C. Warren Olanow, Olivier Rascol, Anette Schrag, Jeanne A. Teresi, Jacobus J. Van Hilten, Nancy LaPelle. Movement Disorders 2007; 22(1):41-47

Scales to assess psychosis in Parkinson's disease: Critique and recommendations. Hubert H. Fernandez, MD, Dag Aarsland, MD, Gilles Fénelon, MD, Joseph H. Friedman, MD, Laura Marsh, MD, Alexander I. Tröster, PhD, Werner Poewe, MD, Olivier Rascol, MD, Cristina Sampaio, MD, Glenn T. Stebbins, PhD, Christopher G. Goetz, MD. Movement Disorders 2008; 23(4):484-500

Apathy and anhedonia rating scales in Parkinson's disease: Critique and recommendations. Albert F.G. Leentjens, MD, PhD, Kathy Dujardin, PhD, Laura Marsh, MD, Pablo Martinez-Martin, MD, PhD, Irene H. Richard, MD, Sergio E. Starkstein, MD, Daniel Weintraub, MD, Cristina Sampaio, MD, Werner Poewe, MD, Oliver Rascol, MD, Glenn T. Stebbins, PhD, Christopher G. Goetz, MD. Movement Disorders Published Online August 16 2008

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