NIH R01 · 2024
Mechanisms of Low-Dose Ketamine Treatment for Parkinson's Disease
ABSTRACT Parkinson's disease (PD) is the 2nd most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting over 1 million people in the United States. PD causes difficulties with movements such as walking and speaking that occur because of loss of the brain chemical dopamine. Current symptomatic PD treatments are based largely on dopamine replacement therapies with L-DOPA; however, these treatments have many long-term side effects which led to interest in non-dopaminergic therapies. The most severe side effect is the development of L-DODA-induced dyskinesia (LID), involuntary movements that can be as or even more debilitating than the disease itself. Any adjunct therapy extending the time frame where…
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