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by meowface 3755 days ago
I'm confused by what you're trying to say. The article repeatedly stated that levodopa has been observed to create higher impulsivity.

I imagine any pure dopamine agonist can be prone to creating an impulse disorder if you take a sufficiently high dose.

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The impulsivity seen in patients only happens in the synthetic, and possible more "selective" dopamine agonists that work more with certain dopamine receptor subtypes. Whereas, levodopa, which is a dopamine precursor and presumable not selective at all (ie. works on all receptors) do not have the impulsivity effect, or at least as dramatic, on these same or similar patients.