Facial tic associated with lamotrigine in adults

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1512-1513

  Musiek, Erik S ^a   Anderson, Christopher T ^a   Dahodwala, Nabila A ^a   Pollard, John R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEXOFENADINE; LAMOTRIGINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TIC; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; TIC DISORDERS; TRIAZINES;

EID: 77955009506     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23120     Document Type: Letter

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