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Motor impulsivity in Parkinson disease: associations with COMT and DRD2 polymorphisms.
Scandinavian journal of psychology - 1 Jun 2014
Ziegler David A, Ashourian Paymon, Wonderlick Julien S, Sarokhan Alison K, Prelec Drazen, Scherzer Clemens R, Corkin Suzanne
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson disease (PD) is an age-related degenerative disease of the brain, characterized by motor, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. Neurologists and neuroscientists now understand that several symptoms of the disease, including hallucinations and impulse control behaviors, stem from the dopaminergic medications used to control the motor aspects of PD. Converging evidence from animals and humans suggests that...
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