Low-dose apomorphine challenge in tardive akathisia
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1Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Neurology
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
We challenged seven tardive akathisia patients with low-dose apomorphine (0.01 mg/kg) SC and placebo in a double-blind, random design. Apomorphine caused a significantly greater reduction in the objective (movement) but not the subjective (distress) component of akathisia.