Researchers have led a clinical trial of a drug that mimics the effects of alcohol in more than 100 patients with laryngeal dystonia, a neurological condition that causes involuntary muscle spasms in ...
Laryngeal dystonia (LD), a rare neurological disease that significantly impacts a person's ability to speak due to uncontrollable vocal cord spasms, can have a debilitating effect on a person's social ...
Sodium oxybate was significantly more effective at reducing symptoms than placebo for patients with alcohol-responsive LD but not those whose symptoms do not improve with alcohol.