<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In recent years focus has been increasingly placed on impulse control disorders (ICDs) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). ICDs include pathological attraction to gambling, compulsive shopping, compulsive eating and compulsive sexual behaviour and are associated mostly with the intake of dopamine agonists. Another impulsive and compulsive behaviour in PD is the dopamine dysregulation syndrome, which is associated with compulsive intake of L-dopa, and short-acting dopamine agonists. Diagnostics and prevention of this group of disorders is essential, considering the difficulties related to their treatment and their negative impact on the patients themselves as well as on their relatives.</p></abstract>

In recent years focus has been increasingly placed on impulse control disorders (ICDs) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). ICDs include pathological attraction to gambling, compulsive shopping, compulsive eating and compulsive sexual behaviour and are associated mostly with the intake of dopamine agonists. Another impulsive and compulsive behaviour in PD is the dopamine dysregulation syndrome, which is associated with compulsive intake of L-dopa, and short-acting dopamine agonists. Diagnostics and prevention of this group of disorders is essential, considering the difficulties related to their treatment and their negative impact on the patients themselves as well as on their relatives.

Impulsivity in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

University Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry “St. Naum”

Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Research

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In recent years focus has been increasingly placed on impulse control disorders (ICDs) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). ICDs include pathological...

Impulsivity in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Published Online: Dec 30, 2017

Page range: 3 - 8

Received: Dec 20, 2016

Accepted: Nov 02, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0001

Keywords
dopamine, impulsivity, Parkinson’s disease

© 2017 Rumyana N. Kuzmanova et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Impulsivity in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Published Online: Dec 30, 2017

Page range: 3 - 8

Received: Dec 20, 2016

Accepted: Nov 02, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0001

Keywordsdopamine, impulsivity, Parkinson’s disease

© 2017 Rumyana N. Kuzmanova et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
dopamine, impulsivity, Parkinson’s disease