Thursday, August 09, 2018

Neuropsychiatric complications of dopaminergic therapy


As pointed out in this free full text review the neuropsychiatric side effects go beyond impulsive gambling to a variety of impulse control phenomena and other psychiatric disturbances. Moreover, it’s not just in patients treated with Parkinson disease but also some of those treated for restless leg syndrome and prolactinoma. There are a number of poorly understood metabolic effects as well, largely favorable it would seem.

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