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Serial Cognitive Profiles in Levodopa-induced Hypersexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

N. S. Harvey
N. S. Harvey*
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University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF
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Abstract

A patient with recent-onset Parkinson's disease was tested for mood, physical disability, and cognition, before treatment and then during and after a period of levodopa-induced hypersexuality. The effects of different anti-Parkinsonian drugs on cognition and behaviour are described. The unique cognitive data from this case support the hypothesis that hypersexuality is a manifestation of enhanced libido and not frontal disinhibition.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 6 , December 1988 , pp. 833 - 836
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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