A Curious Case of Excessive Winking

Soumya Medarametla^{1

2}, Nataraju Boraiah², Srinivas Raju^{2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Anu Institute of Neuro and Cardiac Sciences Vijayawada India.
² Department of Neurology Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre Bangalore India.
³ Department of Neurology Bangalore Baptist Hospital Bangalore India.
⁴ Department of Neurology Columbia Asia Hebbal Bangalore India.

Case Reports

Soumya Medarametla et al. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2021.

. 2021 May 29;8(6):947-949.

doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13254. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Soumya Medarametla^{1

2}, Nataraju Boraiah², Srinivas Raju^{2

3

4}

¹ Anu Institute of Neuro and Cardiac Sciences Vijayawada India.
² Department of Neurology Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre Bangalore India.
³ Department of Neurology Bangalore Baptist Hospital Bangalore India.
⁴ Department of Neurology Columbia Asia Hebbal Bangalore India.

No abstract available

Keywords: Juvenile Huntington's disease; athetosis; blepharoclonus; chorea; dystonia; parkinsonism.

Conflict of interest statement

No specific funding was received for this work and the authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest relevant to this work.

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