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Affective symptomatology in schizophrenia: a risk factor for tardive dyskinesia?
T G Schulze1, D J Müller, H Krauss
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, Germany. schulze@uchicago.edu
Abstract:
Affective symptomatology has repeatedly been suggested to confer susceptibility to tardive dyskinesia (TD). In our sample of 174 schizophrenic patients a history of depressive symptoms was not associated with the occurrence of TD, whereas manic symptomatology was significantly associated with the absence of TD. Thus, our data suggest that affective symptomatology cannot unambiguously be considered to predispose to TD.