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Transient Choreiform Dyskinesias During Alcohol Withdrawal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

L. Fornazzari  and
P. L. Carlen
L. Fornazzari*
Affiliation:
Addiction Research Foundation Clinical Institute and The Playfair Neuroscience Unit, Toronto Western Hospital; The Departments of Medicine (Neurology) and Physiology and the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
P. L. Carlen
Affiliation:
Addiction Research Foundation Clinical Institute and The Playfair Neuroscience Unit, Toronto Western Hospital; The Departments of Medicine (Neurology) and Physiology and the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
*
33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1
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Three chronic alcoholics developed choreiform dyskinesias involving the face, lips, tongue and, in one case, all limbs; 2 patients for the first time, 9 to 10 days after alcohol withdrawal. These abnormalities improved spontaneously with maintained abstinence from alcohol for 2 to 7 weeks. None had a family history of movement disorder, there was no history of other psychoactive drug use or abuse, and there was no evidence of portal-systemic encephalopathy.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1982 , pp. 89 - 90
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1982

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