Hemiballism: Revisiting a classic disorder

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 661-668

  Postuma, Ronald B ^a   Lang, Anthony E ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PERPHENAZINE; PIMOZIDE; RESERPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; TETRABENAZINE; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; VALPROIC ACID;

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMIBALLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142188644     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(03)00554-4     Document Type: Review

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