An Alternative Treatment Strategy With Calcium Channel Blockers in Tourette's Disorder
Mesut Çetin, Nevzat Tarhan, M. Emin Ceylan, Ali Özcan
Article No:
4
Article Type :
Research
The purpose of this study was to evaluate on alternative treatment strategy with calcium channel blockers in Tourette's disorder (TD). In an open-trial of 15 male inpatients diagnosed as TD according to DSM-III-R critaria patients were divided into two groups randomly (verapamil) (n=8) and nifedipine (n=7). Verapamil 120 mg per day and nifedipine 30 mg per day were giyen over a period of 14 weeks. After 14 weeks clinically obvious improvement had occured in all subjects, furthermore both drugs caused tolerable sideeffects in the patients.
Keywords :
Tourette's, disorder, cakium channel blocker, nifedipine, verapamil
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1993;6:15-19
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