Effectiveness of quetiapine for poststroke pathological laughing: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neuropharmacology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 319-322

  Chen, Yu Ren ^a   Huang, Ya Ping ^a   Lin, Shan Ju ^a   Kuan, Tsao Hsiang ^a   Lin, Chin Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

pathological laughing; pons; quetiapine; stroke

Indexed keywords

DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIAZEPAM; QUETIAPINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DIBENZOTHIAZEPINES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LAUGHTER; MALE; PONS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649381151     PISSN: 03625664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNF.0b013e3181f6bfbe     Document Type: Article

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