What a Geriatric Psychiatrist Needs to Know About Movement Disorders

Movement disorders can be caused by psychiatric medications, underlying neurological conditions or, in many cases, both. Movement disorders are an increasingly common neurological disorder in elderly patients with psychiatric. Dr. Riva Posse is Board Certified in Neurology and Psychiatry and he will use videos to demonstrate the most common movement disorders and outline a strategy for diagnosing them. Dr. Marsh will discuss Parkinson's disease (PD), the quintessential movement disorder that encompasses many common geriatric psychiatry syndromes including psychosis, depression and cognitive disorders. She will also outline the PD medications which are associated with psychiatric syndromes such as psychosis and obsessive behaviors. Dr. McDonald will focus on tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder that increases with age. He will describe case studies and show patient videos demonstrating TD as well as outline available treatments for TD.