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. 2020 Oct 21;10:47. doi: 10.5334/tohm.560

Table 1.

Hyperkinetic movement disorders with reported response to EtOH or GHB. Hyperkinetic movement disorders responsive to EtOH or GHB are listed in Table 1. Tremor disorders appear in green, myoclonic disorders in blue, and dystonic disorders in red.


Essential tremor (ET)
Isolated vocal tremor (VT)
Primary writing tremor (PWT)
Orthostatic tremor (OT)
Tremor in Kennedy’s disease (X-linked Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy)
Myoclonus-dystonia linked to epsilon sarcoglycan mutation (SCGE-MD)
Posthypoxic myoclonus (Lance Adams syndrome, PHM)
Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy type 1, (EPM1)
Adult sialidosis type I
Torticollis
Abductor spasmodic dysphonia (ABSD)
Adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD)
Adductor spasmodic dysphonia in DYT-4
Dopa-responsive dystonia (DYT-5, DRD)
Generalized dystonia