Pathologic laughing and crying in multiple sclerosis

Clinical Geriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 14-17

  Lantz, Melinda S ^a  

^a Jewish Home and Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BACLOFEN; BETA INTERFERON; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; DESIPRAMINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; GLATIRAMER; LAMOTRIGINE; MIRTAZAPINE; MITOXANTRONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MOOD STABILIZER; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXYBUTYNIN; PAROXETINE; QUINIDINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; STEROID; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLPIDEM;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DIVORCE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE SPASM; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RASH; RATING SCALE; SEDATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 23144446412     PISSN: 10951598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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