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Treatment of delirium tremens with 5-hydroxytryptophan
Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences
|August 1, 1981
Abstract:
A serotonin precursor, 5-hydroxytryptophan, is advocated in treatment of delirium tremens on clinical, electrophysiological and neurochemical grounds. Th results demonstrate the effectiveness of the drug and seem to bear out a particular hypothesis regarding the pathogenesis of delirium tremens.