Parkinson disease treatment & gambling [conference abstract]

"Parkinson Disease Treatments Show Risk for Developing Gambling Problems" is the title of a press release from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. It notes that some treatments for Parkinson disease may present an increased risk of developing pathological gambling in patients. This is according to a study presented on April 6th by Oksana Suchowersky, MD, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Calgary.