Treatment of pseudobulbar laughter after gamma knife thalamotomy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 622-624

  Okun, Michael S ^a   Heilman, Kenneth M ^b   Vitek, Jerrold L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATROPINE; BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; PRAMIPEXOLE; PRIMIDONE; SELEGILINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIDOTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOTOMY;

HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY; RADIOSURGERY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SERTRALINE; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0036589906     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10174     Document Type: Article

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