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DSM-IV: Neuroleptic Induced Parkinsonism


A medication-induced movement disorder, Parkinson's syndrome may be induced by neuroleptic drugs used in the treatment of mental disorders and for other purposes. The syndrome may also occur when anti-Parkinsonian drugs are reduced or discontinued.

Also: extrapyramidal syndrome, EPS

American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1994



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