“…Although there are, as yet, no prospective trials evaluating the efficacy of any treatment for this condition, the related agent, levetiracetam, has similarly been used, with anecdotal success, in patients with orthostatic myoclonus 8. Given the favourable side-effect profile of both piracetam and levetiracetam, and the clinical similarities between our patients’ reports and the manifestations and patients’ experiences of other forms of myoclonus, elderly patients suffering frequent drop attacks might respond favourably to a trial of these medications.…”