{"id":238863,"date":"2026-06-13T02:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/parkinsons-medication-shows-promise-in-treating-treatment-resistant-depression"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:05:32","slug":"parkinsons-medication-shows-promise-in-treating-treatment-resistant-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/parkinsons-medication-shows-promise-in-treating-treatment-resistant-depression","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s medication shows promise in treating treatment-resistant depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parkinsons-medication-shows-promise-in-treating-treatment-resistant-depression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many people who suffer from depression, the condition is not just about feeling down but also about a loss of motivation and difficulty finding pleasure in activities they used to enjoy. A new study conducted in Sweden shows that a medicine used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease can be used as an add-on therapy to alleviate these symptoms in some patients with treatment-resistant depression. The study has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-026-04465-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers at Lund University and the psychiatric services in Region Sk\u00e5ne have identified the potential new therapy for the condition associated with depression that involves a reduced ability to feel joy, pleasure or motivation\u2014known as anhedonia. Those affected may lose interest in things that they previously found meaningful or rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>The study is an example of what is known as drug repurposing, whereby an already approved medicine is used to treat a different condition. In this study, the researchers investigated pramipexole, which has long been used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease, as an add-on therapy for depression with marked anhedonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many people who suffer from depression, the condition is not just about feeling down but also about a loss of motivation and difficulty finding pleasure in activities they used to enjoy. A new study conducted in Sweden shows that a medicine used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease can be used as an add-on therapy to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}