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SAN DIEGO -- Combined use of a dopamine agonist and levodopa may trigger onset of pathological behaviors, including compulsive gambling, hypersexuality, and compulsive shopping in a subset of patients with Parkinson's disease, according to the results of two independent studies of a total of 485 patients presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
"Although since 2000 there have been case reports [of pathological behaviors], these are the first systematic detailed evaluations...
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