The effects of antipsychotic medication on saccadic eye movement abnormalities in Huntington's disease.

1. The study was a prospective open trial done to determine the effect of antipsychotic medication on saccadic eye movements in patients with Huntington's disease (HD). The authors tested 16 outpatients with HD, 8 of whom were drug free and 8 of whom were on antipsychotic medication.

The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in an elderly immigrant Gujarati population in the United Kingdom.

Objective: The principal aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the performance of a Gujarati version of the MMSE as a screening instrument for dementia. The effect of ethnicity on MMSE performance was also examined.

Design: Two-stage cross-cultural survey.

Ssri-related toxic serotonin syndrome: improvement by discontinuation of treatment and propranolol.

We report three cases in which toxic serotonin syndrome developed in relation to three different selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) (ie, fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine), and which all responded to the discontinuation of the SSRI and also to an additional propranolol treatment.