Choreo-ballistic movements in a case carrying a missense mutation in syntaxin binding protein 1 gene

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2265-2267

  Kanazawa, Kyoko ^a   Kumada, Satoko ^a   Kato, Mitsuhiro ^b   Saitsu, Hirotomo ^c   Kurihara, Eiji ^a   Matsumoto, Naomichi ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL; TECHNETIUM 99M;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSKINESIA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LETTER; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNTAXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1 GENE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TONIC SEIZURE; WEST SYNDROME;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHOREA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUNC18 PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE;

EID: 78649342647     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23164     Document Type: Letter

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