Parkinson's disease meds increase risk of compulsive gambling, shopping, binge eating

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/luhs-pdm040516.php

Public Release: 5-Apr-2016
Parkinson's disease meds increase risk of compulsive gambling, shopping, binge eating
Loyola University Health System

Drugs commonly prescribed to treat Parkinson's disease have been linked to impulse control disorders such as pathological gambling, compulsive buying, hypersexuality and binge eating in some patients, report neurologists from Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

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