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Parkinson’s disease: Why dopamine replacement therapy has a paradoxical effect on cognition

June 15, 2011 by

Dopamine replacement therapy, which is used to manage motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease, can, at times, adversely affect cognition. Now researchers have identified the reasons why.

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