Hanagasi Hasmet Ayhan, Lees Andrew, Johnson Janel O, Singleton Andrew, Emre Murat
Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Mov Disord. 2007 Jan;22(1):115-9. doi: 10.1002/mds.21177.
We describe a patient with juvenile levodopa-responsive Parkinsonism who reported a dramatic response to cigarette smoking with transient but marked improvement of motor symptoms associated with oculogyric crises and psychotic behavior. His beta-CIT single-photon emission computed tomography scan showed a complete absence of presynaptic dopaminergic nerve terminals.
