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Antipsychotic drugs and tardive dyskinesia: preliminary results in an adolescent psychiatric ward
Author(s) -
Dorevitch A.,
Meretyk I.,
Umansky Y.,
Galili–Weisstub E.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1995.tb00630.x
Subject(s) - tardive dyskinesia , antipsychotic , psychiatry , medicine , dyskinesia , antipsychotic drug , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , disease , parkinson's disease
SUMMARY The systematic study of antipsychotic–induced movement disorders in young psychiatric patients is very sparse. We assessed the presence of tardive dyskinesia in an adolescent in–patient psychiatric ward. Eighteen per cent (3/17) exhibited either pronounced or subtle signs of tardive dyskinesia. Our study suggests that young psychiatric patients may develop signs of tardive dyskinesia even though they are exposed to relatively short–term neuroleptic treatment and at dosages that are relatively low. We advocate frequent and systematic monitoring of adolescent patients taking antipsychotic drugs in order to minimize the emergence of this long–term, troublesome complication of neuroleptic drugs.