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Table 4 Drug treatment for chorea.

From: Huntington's disease: a clinical review

Tiapride

max 600 mg

Olanzapine

max 20 mg

Tetrabenazine*

max 200 mg

Pimozide

max 6 mg

Risperidone

max 16 mg

Fluphenazine

max 10 mg

*When tetrabenazine is officially approved per country, this drug will probably become the drug of first choice based on the literature.

Hypokinesia

None

  1. (drug dosages vary individually; here maximal dosages are given; these are seldom necessary in practice)