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Nicotine decreases bradykinesia-rigidity in haloperidol-treated patients with schizophrenia
Yen Kuang Yang1, Leann Nelson, Lakshmi Kamaraju
1National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China.
Abstract:
We applied nicotine 21 mg and matching placebo transdermal patches to thirty haloperidol-treated patients with schizophrenia who smoked. Clinical assessments of bradykinesia-rigidity were lower during nicotine patch administration than during placebo patch administration.