Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified a mechanism responsible for a serious psychiatric complication caused by ...

A robust evaluation of the continuous dopaminergic stimulation hypothesis may require a longer acting levodopa preparation. In fluctuating Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, treatment of PD using ...

The results of these findings were recently published in Molecular Psychiatry. Treatment of Parkinson’s disease is in large ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified a mechanism responsible for a serious psychiatric complication caused by ...

Rates of Parkinson’s disease are rising for reasons which remain unclear, yet it remains an incurable illness. Right now, the main treatment available to patients is levodopa, a therapy which ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how a common Parkinson’s disease treatment, levodopa, can lead to serious psychiatric issues similar to drug addiction. This complication, known ...

Dystonia in Parkinson’s disease often occurs as a side effect of certain medications that doctors prescribe to treat the condition, like levodopa. A 2019 article notes that dystonia commonly ...

MSA is divided into MSA-C (cerebellar variant) which has more symptoms of ataxia (incoordination) and MSA-P (parkinsonian variant) which has more parkinsonian symptoms but is unresponsive to the usual ...

For this reason, people with Parkinson’s usually take levodopa in combination with another drug, carbidopa, that inhibits the break down. Researchers have been working to see how much of a role ...

In fluctuating Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, treatment of PD using the catechol-O-methyl transferase inhibitor entacapone with carbidopa/levodopa improves quality of life and activities of ...