Serendipitous improvement in the yips associated with memantine use [8]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 598-599

  Ringman, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; DONEPEZIL; MEMANTINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LETTER; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SPORT;

DOPAMINE AGENTS; GOLF; HUMANS; MEMANTINE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34247199408     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21368     Document Type: Letter

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