Synopses & Reviews
Drug-Induced Movement Disorders rigorously analyzes established and emerging facts surrounding drug-induced dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia, parkinsonism, and other acute and tardive movement disorders liable to proceed from medicinal use of dopamine blocking agents, antidepressants, levodopa, anticonvulsants, and other drugs - providing professionals effective tools for predicting, identifying, and proactively managing these often treatable, and frequently preventable, conditions.
Book News Annotation:
For physicians using neuroactive drugs in their clinical practice,
neurologists and psychiatrists—most from the US and Britain, but
others from India, Singapore, and Australia—review movement
disorders due to dopamine-blocking agents, drugs used in mood
disorders, sympathomimetic drugs including levodopa, and
anticonvulsants and miscellaneous drugs. Their topics include the
epidemiology of tardive dyskinesia, acute and tardive drug-induced
akathisia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, new approaches to
treatment, movement disorders induced by selective serotonin
re-uptake inhibitors and other antidepressants, stimulant-induced
movement disorders, and disorders induced by anti-epileptics.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)