Treatment of Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome With Clonidine and Neuroleptics
- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 40 (11) , 1235-1240
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1983.01790100081011
Abstract
• In an open clinical trial of clonidine hydrochloride and neuroleptics in patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, neuroleptics resulted in greater improvement across the range of symptoms in a larger proportion of patients than did clonidine. A small subgroup of patients may have benefited from treatment with clonidine. Carefully controlled, randomized, and double-blind studies are necessary to resolve the divergent views about the effectiveness of clonidine in the treatment of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.Keywords
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