Serial cognitive profiles in levodopa-induced hypersexuality

Br J Psychiatry. 1988 Dec:153:833-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.153.6.833.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cognition*
  • Humans
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use*
  • Libido / drug effects
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parkinson Disease / drug therapy*
  • Parkinson Disease / psychology
  • Sexual Behavior / drug effects*

Substances

  • Levodopa