341) Treatment of Tardive dyskinesia with Vitamin E
Author: Sombat Zartrungpak, M.D.
Year: 1996
Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 41 No.4 October-December 1996, P 261-270
Tardive dyskinesia is an abnormal involuntary movement caused by long-term use of antipsychotic drugs which is difficult to treat. During these recent years there were a large amount of studies trying to use many kinds of medication to treat this condition. But even now there has been no good responses reported from variety of treatment. Vitamin E is one of the interesting drugs among these studies. This paper has reviewed new hypotheses about the pathology of tardive dyskinesia, the pharmacolog...