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Controlled Clinical Trial
. 2006 Oct 10;67(7):1254-7.
doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000238503.20816.13. Epub 2006 Sep 6.

Prevalence of repetitive and reward-seeking behaviors in Parkinson disease

V Voon  1 , K Hassan, M Zurowski, M de Souza, T Thomsen, S Fox, A E Lang, J Miyasaki
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Controlled Clinical Trial

Prevalence of repetitive and reward-seeking behaviors in Parkinson disease

V Voon et al. Neurology. .

Abstract

We surveyed 297 patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with systematic screens and rigorous definitional criteria. Pathologic hypersexuality lifetime prevalence was 2.4%. Compulsive shopping was 0.7%. Combined with our pathologic gambling data, the lifetime prevalence of these behaviors was 6.1% and increases to 13.7% in patients on dopamine agonists.

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