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

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

Despite being a mainstay of Parkinson's disease treatment, levodopa, a dopamine-replenishing medication, can cause nasty side ...

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 ...

A COMMON drug prescribed to treat restless leg syndrome and Parkinson’s can trigger disturbing side effects, experts have ...

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 ...

Researchers have wondered if ultraprocessed foods — especially those high in fat and sugar — cause a similarly outsized dopamine response, suggesting they could be addictive in the same way as drugs.

Often characterized by involuntary motor or vocal tics, Tourette syndrome typically appears in childhood and affects up to ...

Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said doctors did not warn them about significant ...

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 ...

A recently launched Phase 1 clinical trial is examining the safety and feasibility of a groundbreaking treatment approach for Parkinson's disease in which a patient's stem cells are reprogrammed to ...

Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless leg syndrome claim doctors did not warn them about significant side effects ...