To see if the concept held — and whether Sydenham chorea even caused OCD — Swedo and her partner at NIMH, psychiatrist Henrietta Leonard, conducted a retrospective study in 1989 of three sites in the United States that had rheumatic fever outbreaks: Salt Lake City, the Ohio River Valley and Walden, Penn.. (discovermagazine.com)
Chief among these are wild, dancelike limb movements known as chorea. (discovermagazine.com)
A recent press release from Auspex Pharmaceuticals reported on an interim analysis from their ongoing ARC - HD trial that switching from tetrabenazine (Xenazine) to SD - 109, resulted in equal control of chorea in Huntington's disease. (hddrugworks.org)