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Successful treatment with clonazepam for neuroleptic-induced akathisia
J Horiguchi1, O Nishimatsu, Y Inami
1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Ehime University School of Medicine, Japan.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
Twenty-one patients with severe neuroleptic-induced akathisia resistant to antiparkinsonian medications were treated with oral clonazepam in an open trial. All the patients reported subjective improvement. We suggest that clonazepam is effective in managing neuroleptic-induced akathisia.