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iPM: Dopamine: How it can cause havoc

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21/05/2016

Dopamine: How it can cause havoc

BBC Radio 4 - iPM, Dopamine: How it can cause havoc

The programme that starts with its listeners. Dopamine - how it can cause havoc.

The programme that starts with its listeners.

After one iPM listener told us about his father's experience of Parkinson's disease medication turning him into a compulsive gambler, Professor Paula Piccini explains what's happening in the brain to cause such a significant change in behaviour.

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