Despite being a mainstay of Parkinson's disease treatment, levodopa, a dopamine-replenishing medication, can cause nasty side-effects with long-term use. A recent human trial found that a new drug ...
Significant side effects of this medication include extrapyramidal symptoms, or involuntary movements and muscle stiffness, which can lead to motor deficits like those seen in patients with ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 65-year-old and otherwise healthy male. After spending the past five years believing that my trembling hands were the result of essential tremor, a second DaT (dopamine ...