Relationship between age and incidence of parkinsonism in psychiatric patients treated with haloperidol
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (2) , 232-234
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.2.232
Abstract
In a retrospective follow-up study of 230 psychotic patients treated with haloperidol, the incidence of parkinsonian side effects was greater in patients under 40 than in patients 40 years of age or older.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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