OBJECTIVE To assess the amount of documentation and level of assessment provided by attending physicians and nursing staff in regard to extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) experienced by hospitalized patients with varied DSM-IV diagnoses regularly treated with antipsychotic medication. METHOD We examined the medical records of 204 hospitalized patients. All medical records were examined retrospecti...

A study of the four extrapyramidal syndromes (EPS), tardive dyskinesia, parkinsonism, akathisia and tardive dystonia, was performed in the Netherlands Antilles, a well-defined catchment area with only one psychiatric hospital. The population under study (N = 194; mean age 53.1) was mainly Afro-Caribbean, and most patients were chronic. The severity of each EPS was measured with valid and reliab...

netic movement disorders are uncommon in acute stroke. Ghika Schmid et al. have identified 29 patients with acute or delayed movement disorders among 2500 acute stroke patients. Recently, we have experienced 34 post-stroke tremor patients among approximately 2000 acute stroke patients over a 5-year period. Our results suggested that post-stroke dyskinesia are not very rare symptoms of stroke. F...

The authors report here a case of sudden developed severe akathisia and parkinsonism with basal ganglia lesions in a 52-years-old diabetic uremic patient. Magnetic resonance of brain showed hyperintensities on T1 weighted images on bilateral basal ganglia.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a conceptually driven, multicomponent strategy for implementing guidelines to improve akathisia in schizophrenia. Methods: Patients included in the study were recruited from 6 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) that were split into geographically matched pairs with 3 VAMCs receiving basic education and 3 receiving enhanced...