Cannabis-Induced propriospinal myoclonus

Movement Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 708-709

  Lozsadi, Dora A ^a   Forster, Alan ^a   Fletcher, Nicholas A ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse effect; Cannabis; Multichannel EMG; Myoclonus; Propriospinal myoclonus

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MYOCLONUS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINE;

EID: 4444322749     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10696     Document Type: Article

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