Akathisia as a side effect of antipsychotic treatment with quetiapine in a patient with Parkinson's disease. |
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| Authors: | Christian Prueter Benedikt Habermeyer Christine Norra Christoph M Kosinski |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University, Aachen, Germany. cprueter@ukaachen.de |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
Due to its low profile for extrapyramidal side-effects, quetiapine has become an alternative to clozapine in the treatment of dopamimetic psychosis in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). We describe the case of a patient with PD who developed severe akathisia, a common complication with classical antipsychotics, with quetiapine. |
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| Keywords: | akathisia quetiapine dopamimetic psychosis |
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