Thread: Have we focused on the wrong neurotransmitter?
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Old 11-19-2012, 08:25 AM
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Default NE and dyskinesias
It may be that the dreaded dyskinesias are due to loss of NE:

"...loss of noradrenergic innervation facilitates the onset of dyskinesia occurring in Parkinsonian patients during dopamine replacement therapy..."

from one of the articles cited in Laura's:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17896981
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