Movement Disorders: A Potentially Dangerous Outcome of Specific Classes of DrugsNadège Chéry
Movement disorders are a group of neurologic conditions that cause excessive voluntary or involuntary movements; these disorders can also cause reduced or slow movements. Classification Hypokinetic: Parkinson’s disease Progressive supranuclear palsy Multiple system atrophy Hyperkinetic: Dystonia Torticol...
Medications that cause skeletal muscle contraction to cease. They may be used to treat certain dental illnesses, such as TMJ disorders. NSAIDs An NSAID works by inhibiting cyclooxygenase, an enzyme responsible for making prostaglandins which are mediators of inflammation. It has anti-inflammatory,...
Indication of Novel Antidepressive Drugs in the Treatment of Movement DisordersLauxG.ingentaconnectAKTUELLE NEUROLOGIE
cocaine can cause long-term changes in the brain’s reward system and in other brain systems as well, which may eventually lead to addiction. With repeated use, tolerance to the cocaine high also often develops. Many cocaine abusers report that they seek but fail to achieve as much pleasure...
The fact that psychoses can be controlled at the same time that tardive dyskensia symptoms are reduced suggests that a drug more specifically affecting the mechanism of psychoses might not cause movement disorders. Sulpiride, a drug not available in the United States but widely used in Europe, ...
Mood stabilizers, also known as antimanic drugs, are used to stabilize manic symptoms in bipolar disorder and prevent the recurrence of mania, but have also been applied to other mood disorders. Valproic acid (VPA) and lithium are mood stabilizers that have therapeutic potential for the treatment...
Drug-induced movement disorders have dramatically declined with the widespread use of second-generation antipsychotics, but remain important in clinical practice and for understanding antipsychotic pharmacology. The diagnosis and management of dystonia, parkinsonism, akathisia, catatonia, neuroleptic malignant ...
other medications that cause drowsiness, such as anti-anxiety medications, muscle relaxants, narcotics, psychiatric medications, sedating antihistamines, or sleeping pills oral contraceptives (oxcarbazepine may make them less effective) proton pump inhibitors such as lansoprazole, omeprazole, or pantoprazole ...
The drug may also cause blurred vision, and movement problems. For these reasons, anyone who takes this drug should not drive, use machines or do anything else that might be dangerous until they have found out how the drug affects them. Prochlorperazine makes some people sweat less, which can...