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Old 09-16-2014, 01:34 PM #1
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Default Researchers debunk myth about Parkinson's disease
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-rdm091514.php

PWP have a lot of dopamine.
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If PWP have a lot of dopamine, then why does taking Levadopa help? Maybe so many dopamine receptors are dead so an increase in dopamine causes those left to be more active and thus reduce symptoms?
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If PWP have a lot of dopamine, then why does taking Levadopa help? Maybe so many dopamine receptors are dead so an increase in dopamine causes those left to be more active and thus reduce symptoms?
Good question. Maybe all that dopamine floating around with no place to go gets oxidized into the dreaded neurotoxin, 6-hydroxydopamine.
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Thanks so much for posting this. The dopamine hypothesis of this that and the other has turned that ill understood neurotransmitter into the new Serotonin.
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