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An unusual effect of ECT on drug-induced parkinsonism and tardive dystonia
1Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Convulsive Therapy
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A patient with schizoaffective disorder and anticholinergic refractory neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism manifested a marked increase of parkinsonian symptoms and dystonia after ECT. This is the first report in the literature of such an unusual reaction of parkinsonian and dystonic symptoms to ECT.