Hopamine as Personalized Medicine for Persons with Parkinson's Disease.

Prescribing dopamine replacement therapy remains the most common approach used by physicians who strive to support persons with Parkinson's disease. In this viewpoint, we argue that instead of merely prescribing dopamine, healthcare professionals should particularly encourage and enable persons with Parkinson's disease to draft their own personalized prescription of "hopamine". The term hopamine is a self-invented neologism representing the uniquely personal set of hopes, desires, experiences, and skills of each individual with a dopamine deficit.