Amantadine treatment of a patient with anoxic brain injury

✍ Scribed by Karin Edby; Jerry Larsson; Meta Eek; Lennart Wendt; Bräcke Östergård

• Book ID: 104713080
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0256-7040
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00301001

✦ Synopsis

An 18-year-old boy with anoxic brain injury, suffering from severe psychomotor inhibition, tetrarigidity and dystonia, was treated with amantadine in order to ameliorate his symptoms. Neuropsychological tests showed improvement in motor and cognitive functions.