This volume provides the first comprehensive account of the scientific and clinical aspects of akathisia and related syndromes such as restless legs syndrome (RLS), other forms of motor restlessness, and neuroleptic-induced dysphoria. The main focus is on drug-induced akathisia and its various subtypes. The author explores its relationship to the restlessness caused by other neurological disorders, presents a new synthesis of the pathophysiological mechanisms of akathisia, and provides arguments for new operational criteria for the research diagnosis of drug-induced akathisia. Strategies for the measurement of akathisia are also discussed, as are treatment approaches. The book will be particularly useful for psychiatrists, neurologists, and other physicians seeking a better understanding of these disabling syndromes.
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"...covered are a feast of topics: chronic akathisia, drug-induced akathisia, tardive akathisia, periodic leg movements of sleep, and painful legs and moving toes syndrome...should be on every neuroleptic user's shelf." George Murray, Psychosomatics
"Researchers will appreciate the pains Dr. Sachdev has taken to summarize what is known about akathisia and restless legs and the numerous suggestions contained in this work." Psychiatric Services
"Researchers will appreciate the pains Dr. Sachdev has taken to summarize what is known about akathisia and restless legs and the numerous suggestions contained in this work." Psychiatric Services
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This book is a comprehensive account of akathisia and related syndromes, including restless legs syndrome, other forms of motor restlessness, and neuroleptic-induced dysphoria.The main focus is on drug-induced akathisia and its various subtypes. Strategies for the measurement of akathisia are discussed, as are treatment approaches, and a fascinating Appendix contains a translation of Hashovec's account of the first cases in the literature.The first extended review of scientific and clinical aspects of akathisia and restlessness, it will be much valued by psychiatrists, neurologists, and other physicians.
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The term akathisia is of Greek derivation and, translated literally into English, means 'not to sit'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
akathisic movements, subjective akathisia, objective akathisia, probable akathisia, akathisia score, akathisia patients, true akathisia, akathisia rating scale, patients with akathisia, subthalamic abscess, less akathisia, tardive onset, diagnose akathisia, possible akathisia, serum iron status, term akathisia, adjusted effect size, dysphoric responders, akathisia present, akathisia scale, akathisia syndrome, persistent akathisia, unilateral akathisia, tardive dysmentia, tardive akathisia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Putten, American Psychiatric Association, Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Objective Sitting Inability, Standing Shifting, Study Drug, Subjective Distressing, Subjective Incidence, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Dosage Percent Effect, Psychiatric Haloperidol, Psychiatric Multiple New!
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The term akathisia is of Greek derivation and, translated literally into English, means 'not to sit'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
akathisic movements, subjective akathisia, objective akathisia, probable akathisia, akathisia score, akathisia patients, true akathisia, akathisia rating scale, patients with akathisia, subthalamic abscess, less akathisia, tardive onset, diagnose akathisia, possible akathisia, serum iron status, term akathisia, adjusted effect size, dysphoric responders, akathisia present, akathisia scale, akathisia syndrome, persistent akathisia, unilateral akathisia, tardive dysmentia, tardive akathisia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Putten, American Psychiatric Association, Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Objective Sitting Inability, Standing Shifting, Study Drug, Subjective Distressing, Subjective Incidence, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Dosage Percent Effect, Psychiatric Haloperidol, Psychiatric Multiple New!
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- Drug Induced Movement Disorders by Stewart Factor on 4 pages
- Tardive Dyskinesia by Wolf in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Movement Disorders in Neurology and Neuropsychiatry by Anthony B Joseph in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Disease by D. Frank Benson in Back Matter
- The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology by Jack R. Cooper in Back Matter
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- Catatonia: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment by Max Fink in Back Matter
- The Creation of Psychopharmacology by David Healy in Back Matter
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- A Guide to the Extrapyramidal Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs by D. G. Cunningham Owens in Back Matter
- Drug-Induced Movement Disorders (Neurological Disease and Therapy) by Kapil D. Sethi on page 157
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