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MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 129-130Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21780
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amantadine; Parkinson's disease; punding; stereotypy; treatment
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Punding, complex stereotyped behavior, sometimes occurs in patients with Parkinson's disease under dopaminergic replacement therapy. Reduction of dopaminergic drugs may reduce the problem but risks enhancing motor impairment. We report a patient with Parkinson's disease presenting disabling punding, which was reversed by amantadine without aggravating motor function. Amantadine may reduce punding by blocking NMDA receptors, in the same manner as in levodopa-induced dyskinesias. (c) 2007 Movement Disorder Society.
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