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Case Report: Psychomotor Status-like Episodes under Haloperidol Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Y. Kaminer  and
H. Munitz
Y. Kaminer*
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel 49 100
H. Munitz*
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva and the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel
*
∗Correspondence.
∗Correspondence.
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Generalized and partial seizures induced by antipsychotic agents are well documented in the medical literature, but these patients generally do not present a management problem. The incidence of this phenomenon is less than 1% in both psychiatric and general medical population (Malcolm, 1972); we came upon only one report of a psychomotor status-like episode due to iatrogenic drug effect in the relevant literature (Kuschke, 1972). According to Gastaut's (1970) classification of epileptic seizures, the general term for psychomotor status is partial seizures with complex symptoms.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 145 , Issue 1 , July 1984 , pp. 87 - 88
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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