Failure of lithium treatment in established tardive dyskinesia
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 10 (3), 583-587
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700047498
Abstract
SYNOPSISEleven patients with tardive dyskinesia were treated with lithium carbonate in a placebo-controlled double-blind crossover study. No significant effect of lithium on either tardive dyskinesia or blood prolactin concentrations was demonstrated, but 5 patients developed pseudo-Parkinsonian features.Keywords
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