A guide to the extrapyramidal side-effects of antipsychotic drugs / D.G. Cunningham Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, D. G. Cunningham (David Griffith Cunningham), 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extrapyramidal disorders.

Antipsychotic drugs--Side effects.

Antipsychotic drugs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Antipsychotic drugs have revolutionised the management of major psychiatric disorders and the outcomes of those who suffer from them. They are, however, possessed of a range of adverse effects, amongst the most frequent and distressing of which are those resulting in disturbance of voluntary motor function. Extrapyramidal side effects - or E.P.S. - are still poorly recognised and not infrequently misattributed. Despite a vast research literature, there have been few attempts to bring together both the descriptive clinical elements of these disorders and major research conclusions pertinent to routine practice. This very readable and well illustrated 1999 book seeks to rectify this in the hope of increasing clinicians' awareness of the issues and acknowledgement of their impact. This is a task made more rather than less urgent with the emergence of drugs of lower liability but which may promote subtler abnormality than standard compounds.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 The background; 2 Some preliminaries; 3 Acute dystonias; 4 Parkinsonism; 5 Akathisia; 6 Tardive dyskinesia; 7 Tardive and chronic dystonia; 8 Involuntary movements and schizophrenia: a limitation to the concept of tardive dyskinesia?; 9 Special populations; 10 The clinical examination; 11 An overview of some standardised recording instruments; 12 Some medicolegal and quality-of-care issues; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-345) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11115-3

1-280-15888-3

9786610158881

0-511-11716-7

0-511-00597-0

0-511-14908-5

0-511-30292-4

0-511-54416-2

0-511-05128-X

OCLC:

437072460