Dysarthric Disorders Associated with the Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

R. Kozian; K. Lesser; K. Peter

doi:10.1055/s-2007-979575

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Pharmacopsychiatry 1996; 29(6): 220-222
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979575

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Dysarthric Disorders Associated with the Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

R. Kozian¹ , K. Lesser² , K. Peter²

¹Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany
²Department of Psychiatry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

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23 April 2007 (online)

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There have been two reported cases of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) in combination with dysarthric disorders. In both cases the NMS was phenomenologically related to the malignant dopamine withdrawal syndrome and to the akinetic crisis of parkinsonism. The reported dysarthric disorders are to be interpreted as a differential-diagnostic sign of the exclusion of a permicious catatonia.

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