| Abstract | We describe a patient with juvenile levodopa-responsive Parkinsonism who reported a dramatic response to cigarette smoking with transient but marked improvement of motor symptoms associated with oculogyric crises and psychotic behavior. His beta-CIT single-photon emission computed tomography scan showed a complete absence of presynaptic dopaminergic nerve terminals. |
| Authors | Hasmet Ayhan Hanagasi, Andrew Lees, Janel O Johnson, Andrew Singleton, Murat Emre
(Affiliation: Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. hasmet at yahoo.com)
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| Journal | Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
(Mov Disord)
Vol. 22
Issue 1
Pg. 115-9
(Jan 2007)
ISSN: 0885-3185 United States |
| PMID | 17080433
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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| Copyright | Copyright 2006 Movement Disorder Society. |
| Chemical References |
- Nicotinic Agonists
- Tropanes
- 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane
- Nicotine
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| Topics |
- Adult
- Humans
- Male
- Nicotine
(therapeutic use)
- Nicotinic Agonists
(therapeutic use)
- Parkinsonian Disorders
(drug therapy, radionuclide imaging)
- Smoking
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
- Tropanes
(pharmacokinetics)
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