Northwestern University scientists have identified a specific brain circuit mechanism that may explain why long-term levodopa use in Parkinson’s patients can trigger involuntary movements. Their mouse ...

For the roughly one million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease, levodopa is the closest thing to an indispensable drug ...

Why do memories fade in Alzheimer's disease—and can they be restored? University of California, Irvine researchers have ...

Tavapadon may delay levodopa use in early Parkinson’s and help stabilize dosing in the later stages of the disease, with most ...

Researchers discovered that an 80% drop in dopamine causes Alzheimer's memory loss. Restoring dopamine with Levodopa rescued ...

The standard medication levodopa does not always work against tremors in Parkinson's disease, especially in stressful situations. Propranolol, however, does work during stress, providing insight into ...

Tavapadon treatment was associated with a reduced need for levodopa initiation or dose escalation in approximately 90% of ...

In the late 1960s, scientists discovered a miracle drug for Parkinson’s disease — a simple, inexpensive dopamine-replacement pill called levodopa. It transformed the lives of millions of people.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved foscarbidopa and foslevodopa (Vyalev, AbbVie), a solution of carbidopa and levodopa prodrugs for 24-hour continuous subcutaneous infusion, for ...

The addition of levodopa doesn’t improve motor function among patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation therapy after an acute stroke, according to the results of the placebo-controlled ESTREL trial ...