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Gilles de la Tourette's symptoms induced by L-Dopa


K. Klempel

Abstract

Gilles de la Tourette's and Benedek's symptoms were twice released by L-dopa in a patient suffering from the sequelae of a contusio cerebri. Attendant circumstances of the case offer a functional-neuronal explanation fitting the rules of neuronal denervation and postdenervation supersensitivity according to Cannon's law. The view of a somatogenesis of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome is supported.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1379 (1974).

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