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Authors: | AR Davis WR Barlow RP Pepper MG Dean |
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Affiliation: | Neurologischen Abteilung Schlosspark-Klinik, Berlin. |
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Abstract: | We report on two patients with truncal rigidity and agoraphobia. The fear of crossing open places had been judged as psychogenic in both cases. The detection of positive GAD-antibodies led to our final diagnosis. Treatment with liquorphoresis and clonazepam or diazepam alone resulted in a prompt amelioration of the rigidity and, to a lesser extent, of the agoraphobia as well. The stiff-man syndrome has neurological and psychological aspects and shows one more facet of the syndrome of agoraphobia first described by Westphal. |
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