A 65-year-old man with a lifelong history of paranoid schizophrenia had been treated with
50 mg of risperidone microspheres every 2 weeks for the past 10 years and had tolerated …

Introduction Introduction: The risk of clozapine associated dysphagia is between 1/1000 and
1/10000 (1). The associated complications of aspiration, pneumonia and mortality are also …

Sir: Somnambulism reflects an impairment in the normal mechanisms of arousal from sleep
in which motor behaviors initiated during deep, non–rapid eye movement or slow-wave …

Choking is a life-threatening and not infrequent occurrence in psychiatric hospitals. There is,
however, little information available about the risk factors or methods to prevent choking. We …

Sir: Quetiapine fumarate is a dibenzothiazepinederivative antipsychotic with combined
antagonism at dopamine (D1, D2) and serotonin type 1 and type 2 (5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5 …

Background: All antipsychotics are associated with extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). These
can present as dysphagia, esophageal dysmotility, or aspiration, all of which may not be …

Sialorrhea and sedation are frequent side effects associated with clozapine therapy.[1]
Decreased pharyngeal and esophageal peristalsis (unrelated to sialorrhea or sedation) …

MULTIPLE FACTORS HAVE been attributed to the cause of hiccups, such as gastric
distension or gastroesophageal reflux, medications, lesions or infections of the central …

Introduction This is a comprehensive review of antipsychotic (AP)-induced dysphagia and its
complications: choking and pneumonia. Areas covered Four PubMed searches were …

Dysphagia is occasionally reported in patients taking neuroleptic agents, although the
newer,“atypical” neuroleptics are generally believed to be associated with fewer neurologic …