CEREBROSPINALECTOMYSon: "He has started gambling." Me: "Since when?" Son: "Since the new Parkinson's medicine." Me: "That is the medicine." Son: "You are joking." Me: "I have never been less funny in my life." What's the question you get at every dinner? Save this. Then send it to whoever prescribes dopamine agonists.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Dopamine agonists used in Parkinson's disease are associated with impulse control disorders — pathological gambling, hypersexuality, compulsive shopping and binge eating — which typically remit on dose reduction or withdrawal of the agonist.
Extensively documented; PubMed PMIDs 42626033, 42289917, 42147847 among 237 indexed results for dopamine agonist ICDs in PD.
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