Dr. Gregory M Pontone MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist | Geriatric Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins Hospital 600 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore MD, 21287About
Dr. Gregory Pontone is a geriatric psychiatrist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Pontone specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, particularly in older adults. Patients who visit geriatric psychiatrists typically look for help with problems like memory loss, depression, difficulty coping with change, stress, dementia, anxiety and more. Older adults may also experience emotional distress after being diagnosed with a disease as well. Dr. Pontone helps patients after a comprehensive diagnostic exam so the root of their problems can be treated.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Gaps in treatment for anxiety in Parkinson disease.
- Designing a new scale to measure anxiety symptoms in Parkinson's disease: item selection based on canonical correlation analysis.
- Dopamine transporter imaging in psychogenic parkinsonism and neurodegenerative parkinsonism with psychogenic overlay: a report of three cases.
- Application of depression rating scales in patients with Parkinson's disease with and without co-Occurring anxiety.
- Systematic review of factors associated with depression and anxiety disorders among older adults with Parkinson's disease.
- The Parkinson Anxiety Scale (PAS): development and validation of a new anxiety scale.
- REM Sleep Behavior and Motor Findings in Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-sectional Analysis.
- Dopamine receptor agonist drugs and impulse control disorders.
- Molecular imaging of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
- Is the Parkinson Anxiety Scale comparable across raters?
- Neuropsychiatric Complications of Parkinson Disease Treatments: Importance of
- Anxiety in Parkinson's: a complex syndrome of non-dopaminergic and dopaminergic etiology.
- Visual Hallucinations in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Focus on Selective Tissue Vulnerability.
- Domain-specific cognitive impairment in non-demented Parkinson's disease psychosis.
- Predictors of anxiety in early-stage Parkinson's disease - Results from the first two years of a prospective cohort study.
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