NEUROMUSCULAR EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM PHENOTHIAZINE MEDICATION, ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY AND LEUCOTOMY
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 143 (1) , 73-79
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-196607000-00008
Abstract
In a mental hospital 488 chronic patients were observed for 3 kinds of abnormal movements: Parkinsonism, akathisia, and facial dyskinesia. Seventy-four patients exhibited these movements. Of the 74, 63 belonged to a group of 371 patients who had received long-term phenothiazine therapy; the remaining 11 belonged to a group of 117 patients who had not. They were compared with respect to sex, age, dose and duration of therapy with major tranquilizers, ECT [electroconvulsive therapy] and leucotomy. Statistical analysis of the results showed that abnormal movements were related to age but not to sex, ECT or leucotomy; it showed that Parkinsonism was related to long-term phenothiazine therapy but that akathisia and facial dyskinesia were not.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Persistent Dyskinesias Following Phenothiazine TherapyArchives of Neurology, 1966