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Carbamazepine-induced abnormal movements have been reported in children and adult patients, and both non-epileptic myoclonus and tic-like movements have been reported in the same patient. Although a pathogenetic mechanism underlying carbamazepine-induced epileptic negativemyoclonus has been proposed, a causative role of carbamazepine for positive myoclonus has not been fully identified. Here, we describe the video-documented case of an adult patient with non-epileptic myoclonus and tic-like movements persisting for 21 years, which appeared after he started carbamazepine treatment at 10 years of age.
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Magaudda, A., Di Rosa, G. Carbamazepine-induced non-epileptic myoclonus and tic-like movements. Epileptic Disord. 14, 172–173 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2012.0504
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2012.0504