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^ > Have any Parkinson's Patients also been diagnosed with ADHD or ADD? > > These questions resulted from the following recent posting on Physicians' > Online Psychiatry Discussion Group (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry): > A 10-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD showed evidence of cog-wheel rigidity > and resting tremor. > > EMAIL: [log in to unmask] > Fiona Geiser, Ph.D. > As a special education parent advocate I have come in contact with many children with a wide variety of disability areas. Some of them have cog-wheeling and tremors secondary to neuropathology. Since PD is not *supposed* to be genetic, one wonders if this child has other neuropathology that contributed to his ADHD. Incidently, few of the ADHD children I've advocated for have had gross motor problems. ----- Mary Ann