Acquired pendular nystagmus in multiple sclerosis: An examiner-blind cross-over treatment study of memantine and gabapentin

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-327

  Starck, Michaela ^a   Albrecht, Holger ^a   Pöllmann, Walter ^a   Dieterich, Marianne ^b   Straube, Andreas ^b  

^a Marianne Strauss Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquired nystagmus; Drug therapy; Gabapentin; Memantine; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; MEMANTINE;

ACQUIRED PENDULAR NYSTAGMUS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NYSTAGMUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SLURRED SPEECH; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UROSEPSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AMINES; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MEMANTINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951206007     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5309-x     Document Type: Article

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