HANDWRITING CHANGES AND RESPONSE TO DRUGS—A CONTROLLED STUDY

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SUMMARY: A controlled study of the relationship between the therapeutic response to a neuroleptic drug and the handwriting changes which it produces is described. Patients whose handwriting had changed as described by Haase improved to a greater extent than those whose handwriting had not changed, but received much larger doses of the drug. Patients treated according to the psychiatrist's judgment received larger doses than those which produced handwriting changes, but in retrospect the optimum dose corresponded closely to the dose producing handwriting changes. These findings are discussed.