Effective treatment of orthostatic tremor with gabapentin

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 829-831

  Evidente, Virgilio Gerald H ^a   Adler, Charles H ^a   Caviness, John N ^a   Gwinn, Katrina A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gabapentin; Isometric tremor; Orthostatic tremor; Shaky legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIPLOPIA; DROWSINESS; DRY EYE; DRY SKIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; XEROSTOMIA;

ACETIC ACIDS; AGED; AMINES; ANTICONVULSANTS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; TREMOR; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031709131     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130513     Document Type: Article

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