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The Lifetime Outcome and Involuntary Movements of Schizophrenia Never Treated with Neuroleptic Drugs

Four Rare Cases in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John L. Waddington  and
Hanafy A. Youssef
John L. Waddington*
Affiliation:
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Hanafy A. Youssef
Affiliation:
St Davnet's Hospital, Monaghan, Ireland
*
∗St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

Four elderly schizophrenic patients who had never been treated with neuroleptics, and a fifth patient who had received only the briefest exposure to such drugs, had retained their distinct clinical characteristics. Involuntary orofacial movements and cognitive dysfunction were found more uniformly than any particular pattern of symptoms.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 106 - 108
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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