Traditional Chinese medicine on four patients with Huntington's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 453-455

  Satoh, Takashi ^a   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Iwasaki, Koh ^a,c   Tago, Hideaki ^a   Seki, Takashi ^c   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^c   Tobita, Muneshige ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^d  

^a Yonezawa National Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chorea; Huntington's disease; Movement disorder; Traditional Chinese medicine; Yi Gan San (yokukansan)

Indexed keywords

CHAIHU JIA LONGGU MULI TAN; CHINESE DRUG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YI GAN SAN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; YI-GAN SAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CASE REPORT; CHINESE MEDICINE; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HUNTINGTON DISEASE RATING SCALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY;

AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 67651094289     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22447     Document Type: Article

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