Despite being a mainstay of Parkinson's disease treatment, levodopa, a dopamine-replenishing medication, can cause nasty side ...

A COMMON drug prescribed to treat restless leg syndrome and Parkinson’s can trigger disturbing side effects, experts have warned. Women have come forward reporting how the medicine has led ...

A class of drugs commonly used to treat movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome is pushing people into risky sexual behavior. Patients taking dopamine agonists say ...

Getting a headache and feeling sick are common side-effects for many medicines. Indulging in risky sexual behavior or ...

Millions of Brits with a common condition were today warned that drugs to treat them could trigger an unexpected and bizarre sexual side effect. The medicines — known as dopamine agonists ...

Prevalence rates of what GSK calls "deviant" sexual behaviours caused by the drugs are unknown and tend to be under-reported ...

Dopamine-receptor agonists, used to treat Parkinson's disease and restless legs syndrome, have been linked to impulse-control disorders like hypersexuality and compulsive gambling. Studies highlight ...

The drug Ropinirole, described as a “dopamine agonist” and used for conditions that affect how we move, is offered on the NHS ...

The drug blocks the transmission of pain signals, relieving pain, and it triggers the release of dopamine from the reward ...

Addictive drugs co-opt this survival system by triggering a larger surge in dopamine and driving people to use them again and again, Dr. Small said. We are having trouble retrieving the article ...