The dopamine agonists ropinirole and pramipexole exhibit highly specific affinity for the cerebral dopamine D3 receptor. Use of these medications in Parkinson's disease has been complicated by the emergence of pathologic behavioral patterns such as hypersexuality, pathologic gambling, excessive hobbying, and other circumscribed obsessive-compulsive disorders of impulse control in people having ...

Identifying risk factors for sexual abuse in men who work with children and who have already abused a child could lead to more appropriate screening and prevention strategies and is thus of major scientific and societal relevance. A total of 8649 German men from the community were assessed in an extensive anonymous and confidential online survey. Of those, 37 (0.4 %) could be classified as chil...

The patient was a 72-year-old married man who initially presented to the Elbistan State Hospital with his wife, who supplemented the clinical history, for evaluation of gradually progressing cognitive impairment of approximately 4 years’ duration. His wife reported an insidious onset of short-term memory difficulties, including repetition of stories and fluctuating periods of confusion regardin...

Sexual consent education has emerged in recent years as the most popular method of preventing gender-based violence. Yet, concept used much contemporary programming problematically oversimplifies sexual exploration and power dynamics it is imbued with by asserting that simple “Yes” or “No.” The messiness negotiation ‘grey areas’ youth may experience are left unaddressed. By examining experience...

This paper discusses the influence of feminism in classic Victorian novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The New Woman is a feminist ideal that appeared 19th century, more specifically amidst rise first wave feminism. method research used this study covers close reading source material and analyzing characters through perspective ideals. female Stoker’s portrayed characteristic to some degree. Women’s...

Impulsive-compulsive disorders such as pathological gambling, hypersexuality, compulsive eating, and shopping are side effects of the dopaminergic therapy for Parkinson's disease. With a lower prevalence, these disorders also appear in the general population. Research in the last few years has discovered that these pathological behaviors share features similar to those of substance use disorder...