Tardive dyskinesia: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on tardive dyskinesia: clinical features: Defining features The disorder develops during drug treatment or within 6 months of stopping the treatment It requires ≥ 3 months of drug use (usually 1-2 years) The movements persist for ≥ 1 month after stopping the…

Defining features

  • The disorder develops during drug treatment or within 6 months of stopping the treatment
  • It requires ≥ 3 months of drug use (usually 1-2 years)
  • The movements persist for ≥ 1 month after stopping the treatment
  • Remission occurs in about 13-25% of cases: it is spontaneous in 2%
  • The onset is insidious
  • There is progression followed by stabilisation

Stereotypic movements

Akathisia (inner restlessness): manifestations

Other movement disorders

Respiratory dyskinesia

Other movements

References

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  5. Gupta HV. Teaching Video NeuroImages: Tardive diaphragmatic tremor. Neurology 2020; 94:e656. 
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