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Clinical Trial
. 1980 Aug;10(3):583-7.
doi: 10.1017/s0033291700047498.

Failure of lithium treatment in established tardive dyskinesia

A V MacKay, G P Sheppard, B K Saha, B Motley, A L Johnson, C D Marsden
Clinical Trial

Failure of lithium treatment in established tardive dyskinesia

A V MacKay et al. Psychol Med. 1980 Aug.

Abstract

Eleven patients with tardive dyskinesia were treated with lithium carbonate in a placebo-controlled double-blind crossover study. No significant effect of lithium on either tardive dyskinesia or blood prolactin concentrations was demonstrated, but 5 patients developed pseudo-Parkinsonian features.

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