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 type of drug used to treat patients with movement disorders appears to cause unusual sexual urges and other erratic ...

Understanding the downsides of digital overstimulation, more people are adopting dopamine fasting to find joy in slower, more ...

The medicines — known as dopamine agonists — interact with ... ropinirole but claimed she was not told of any of the drug's side effects. While her symptoms subsided, after a year on ...

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

Dopamine agonists mimic dopamine ... They also argued that despite studies linking the drug to such behaviors as early as 2000, GSK had failed to include warnings in its product literature ...

Getting a headache and feeling sick are common side-effects for many medicines. Indulging in risky sexual behaviour or pathological gambling – not so common. But a BBC investigation has highlighted ...