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Electroconvulsive therapy for persistent neuroleptic-induced akathisia and parkinsonism: a case report
H Hermesh1, D Aizenberg, G Friedberg
1Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Biological Psychiatry
|February 15, 1992
Abstract:
Neuroleptic-induced akathisia (NIA) and parkinsonism (NIP) continued for 3 months, despite two courses of anticholinergic treatments, a shift to low-potent neuroleptic (NL) and a NL-free period. The two adverse effects responded dramatically to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to reemerge 3 months after termination of ECT. The case supports the idea that ECT is effective for both NIA and NIP even when they are resistant.