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Normalization of voice in spasmodic dysphonia during transient global amnesia.

Kishore A, Lang AE

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We report on the case of a 69-year-old woman with Parkinson's disease and long-standing history of spasmodic dysphonia that reversed during an episode of transient global amnesia (TGA). To our knowledge, this phenomenon has not been reported before. We suggest possible mechanisms by which the pathophysiology of dystonia could reverse during TGA.

Published 29 August 2005 in Mov Disord, 20(9): 1228-9.
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