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Remission of Tardive Dystonia after ECT
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| LostBoyinNC 2005-06-18, 10:53 pm |
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http://www.ectjournal.com/pt/re/jec...JyTccSjCiToScJD!-796981593!-949856031!9001!-1
Remission of Tardive Dystonia (Blepharospasm) After Electroconvulsive
Therapy in a Patient With Treatment-Refractory Schizophrenia.
Journal of ECT. 21(2):132-134, June 2005.
Sienaert, Pascal MD *; Peuskens, Joseph MD, PhD +
Abstract:
Tardive dystonia is a movement disorder dominated by involuntary
muscle contractions that may be tonic, spasmodic, patterned or
repetitive, associated with the use of dopamine-receptor blocking
agents. Most of the patients with tardive dystonia present initially
with blepharospasm. Treatment of dystonia is generally disappointing. A
patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who developed blepharospasm
is described here. Blepharospasm remitted after a course of
electroconvulsive therapy. Remission was sustained until 3 months after
stopping maintenance electroconvulsive therapy.
(C) 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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| Steve 2005-06-18, 10:53 pm |
| This is a very interesting abstract because the remission from tardive
dystonia, a disorder often catalyzed by powerful mind altering drugs,
sometimes forced upon individuals lasted about as long as relief from
depression does in people undergoing ECT without regular treatments.
There might be quite valuable data to be gleaned about the mode of action of
ECT, still unknown after 67 years of ECT practice.
One would hope for an effective treatment with out the destructive results
of ECT in so many who receive it, and perhaps the dynamic noted in the
article would help lead the way toward this greater understanding.
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http://www.ectjournal.com/pt/re/jec...JyTccSjCiToScJD!-796981593!-949856031!9001!-1
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> Remission of Tardive Dystonia (Blepharospasm) After Electroconvulsive
> Therapy in a Patient With Treatment-Refractory Schizophrenia.
> Journal of ECT. 21(2):132-134, June 2005.
> Sienaert, Pascal MD *; Peuskens, Joseph MD, PhD +
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> Abstract:
> Tardive dystonia is a movement disorder dominated by involuntary
> muscle contractions that may be tonic, spasmodic, patterned or
> repetitive, associated with the use of dopamine-receptor blocking
> agents. Most of the patients with tardive dystonia present initially
> with blepharospasm. Treatment of dystonia is generally disappointing. A
> patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who developed blepharospasm
> is described here. Blepharospasm remitted after a course of
> electroconvulsive therapy. Remission was sustained until 3 months after
> stopping maintenance electroconvulsive therapy.
>
> (C) 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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