Efficacy and safety of T2000 in older patients with essential tremor

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 485-486

  Tahar, Abdallah Hadj ^a   Chuang, Rosalind ^b   Steeves, Thomas ^b   Jog, Mandar ^c   Lang, Anthony ^b   Grimes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barbiturate; Essential tremor; T2000

Indexed keywords

1,3 DIMETHOXYMETHYL 5,5 DIPHENYLBARBITURIC ACID; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; T 2000; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRIVING ABILITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LETTER; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE SPASM; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESSNESS; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP WALKING; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; THORAX PAIN; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

AGED; BARBITURATES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84875250895     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.11.014     Document Type: Letter

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