Multiple rhythmic movement disorders in a teenage boy with excellent response to clonazepam

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 767-768

  Janković, Slavko M ^a   Sokić, Dragoslav V ^a   Vojvodić, Nikola M ^a   Ristić, Aleksandar J ^a   Kostić, Valdimir S ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; BODY MOVEMENT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; EVENING DOSAGE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT DISORDER; NONREM SLEEP; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SYMPTOM; WAKEFULNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CLONAZEPAM; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449099723     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21969     Document Type: Letter

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