AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -(Rytary, Sinemet, Duopa, others), Levodopa, the most effective Parkinson’s disease medication, is a natural chemical that passes into your brain and is converted to dopamine. Levodopa is combined with carbidopa (Lodosyn), which protects levodopa from early conversion to dopamine outside your brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Levodopa. Most people with Parkinson’s disease eventually need a medication called levodopa. Levodopa is absorbed by the nerve cells in your brain and turned into the chemical dopamine, which is used to transmit messages between the parts of the brain and nerves that control movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Levodopa is converted to dopamine in the brain. The influx of dopamine created by levodopa helps treat the motor symptoms of PD. Adding carbidopa prevents levodopa from being converted into dopamine in the bloodstream. This allows more of the drug to get to the brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carbidopa and levodopa combination is used to treat Parkinson’s disease, sometimes called shaking palsy or paralysis agitans. Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).

Detailed explanation-5: -For patients moderately affected by Parkinson’s disease the first-line treatment is levodopa with a peripheral dopa decarboxylase inhibitor. A dopamine agonist may be added to minimise the dose of levodopa. Anticholinergic drugs may help patients with tremor.