The Epidemiology of Drug-induced Akathisia: Part I. Acute Akathisia
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The epidemiology of drug-induced akathisia: Part I. Acute akathisia.
This article reviews the epidemiological data on drug-induced acute akathisia, examining studies in which akathisia was the primary focus as well as those in which it was one of a number of drug side effects studied. The studies are diverse in methodology and suffer from many limitations. Incidence rates for acute akathisia with conventional neuroleptics vary from 8 to 76 percent, with 20 to 30...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/21.3.431