Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1494-1496
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Tardive dyskinesia and neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism in Japan
RL Binder, H Kazamatsuri, T Nishimura and DE McNiel
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.
The authors studied neuroleptic drug response in 126 inpatients in Japan.
They found similar prevalences and risk factors of tardive dyskinesia and
neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism in Japan and the West, despite
cross-cultural differences in psychiatric practice.