Stefan Gebhardt, Fabian Härtling, Markus Hanke, Frank M Theisen, Richard von Georgi, Phillip Grant, Markus Mittendorf, Matthias Martin, Christian Fleischhaker, Eberhard Schulz, Helmut Remschmidt
OBJECTIVE: To examine relations between movement disorders (MD) and psychopathological symptoms in an adolescent population with schizophrenia under treatment with predominantly atypical antipsychotics. METHOD: MD symptoms and psychopathology were cross-sectionally assessed in 93 patients (aged 19.6 +/- 2.2 years) using Tardive Dyskinesia Rating Scale (TDRS), Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), Extrapyramidal Symptom Scale (EPS), Barnes Akathisia Scale (BAS), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Schedule for Assessment of Negative/Positive Symptoms (SANS/SAPS)...
February 2008: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry