Erschienen in:
31.07.2019 | Editorial
Molecular imaging of impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease
verfasst von:
Joonas Majuri, Juho Joutsa
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Ausgabe 11/2019
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Excerpt
Impulse control disorders (ICDs) affect approximately one seventh of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) [
1]. Common ICDs include gambling disorder, hypersexuality, compulsive shopping, and binge eating. These disorders have been strongly linked to dopamine replacement therapy and, especially gambling disorder, share many clinical features with substance addictions [
1,
2]. However, not all patients develop ICDs with dopamine replacement therapy, but the reasons for this and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ICDs are still relatively poorly understood. …