Treatment of Huntington's Chorea

Abstract

To the Editor: The relative efficiency of anti-choreic drugs or their associations in Huntington's disease is still imperfectly known. Our purpose has been to compare the effect of the treatments listed below. Treatment 1 consists of haloperidol (0.5 mg, three times a day) plus diazepam (5 mg, three times a day), and Treatment 2 of reserpine (0.25 mg, three times a day) plus diazepam (5 mg, three times a day). The effects of haloperidol have been investigated in 34 cases,^{1 , 2} and reserpine has been used in more than 100 patients.¹ Diazepam has been used with both haloperidol and reserpine because . . .