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Mechanisms of body weight gain in PD. Body weight gain may occur with treatment by agonist or DBS. Both agonist and DBS treatment may lead to modifications of eating behavior leading to increased food intake. In addition, with successful DBS treatment, energy expenditure decreases by improvement of symptoms leading to body weight gain even in the absence of eating disorders.
