Tardive dyskinesia causes involuntary movements in some people taking antipsychotic medications. Here’s what you need to know about this movement disorder. Antipsychotic medications are a mainstay of ...
It’s not always easy to know how to help someone with tardive dyskinesia. Yet there are many ways to provide support, such as offering to help with daily tasks and practicing active listening. Tardive ...
Tardive dyskinesia shares features with other movement disorders, such as Tourette syndrome and drug-induced Parkinsonism. But a diagnostic evaluation can reveal which condition is causing the ...
Patients on antipsychotics need to be regularly monitored for signs of tardive dyskinesia, a medication-induced movement disorder diagnosed when the involuntary movements persist for at least a month ...
Tardive dyskinesia and dystonia are both neurological disorders that can affect your muscles and cause involuntary muscle contractions. Tardive dyskinesia, which is usually a side effect of some ...
Credit: Getty Images This patient fact sheet describes the medications that are known to induce tardive dyskinesia, its symptoms, and ways in which the disease state may be managed. Our easy-to-read ...
Hold on. Why is Carnie Wilson, the singer who co-founded the music trio Wilson Phillips, trying to bring more attention to tardive dyskinesia? After all, she doesn’t have TD herself. Well, both she ...
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) announced today that a new analysis from the European cohort of the RIM-TD open-label ...
Muscle twitches, often experienced as sudden, involuntary movements in the muscles, are common yet can raise concerns for some individuals. These small, rapid contractions, medically known as ...
Chorea-acanthocytosis is a rare genetic disorder of the nervous system. It causes involuntary jerks and twitches in the muscles, known as chorea, and star-shaped red blood cells, known as ...