"Primidone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An antiepileptic agent related to the barbiturates; it is partly metabolized to PHENOBARBITAL in the body and owes some of its actions to this metabolite. Adverse effects are reported to be more frequent than with phenobarbital. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p309)
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D011324
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.253.650.700
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Primidone" by people in Profiles.
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Treatment Patterns in Essential Tremor: A Retrospective Analysis. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2022; 12:10.
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Benefits and risks of pharmacological treatments for essential tremor. Drug Saf. 2003; 26(7):461-81.
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Essential tremor: clinical correlates in 350 patients. Neurology. 1991 Feb; 41(2 ( Pt 1)):234-8.
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Orthostatic tremor: an association with essential tremor. Mov Disord. 1991; 6(1):60-4.
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Efficacy of primidone for seizure control in neonates and young infants. Pediatr Neurol. 1988 Sep-Oct; 4(5):292-5.
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[Adverse effects of anti-epileptic drugs]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 1975 Sep 19; 100(38):1904-6.