Tardive dyskinesia and cognitive functions in schizophrenia

Soni, S. K.; Neill, Desmond O

doi:10.1016/0920-9964(90)90179-b

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“…Several studies have reported a significant relationship between the severity of TD and cognitive impairment using correlational and multiple regression techniques (4,45,46). Studies involving between-group designs in subjects under 55 years of age have reported mixed findings, with a number of studies supporting the above association (44, 47, 50), while others have failed to demonstrate significant differences between patients with and without TD (51)(52)(53)(54). Studies of computerized tomographic abnormalities in TD patients have also produced mixed results (47, 52, 54-56).…”

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Negative symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, tardive akathisia and tardive dvskinesia

Sachdev¹,

Hume²,

Toohey³

et al. 1996

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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This study examined the relationship of neuropsychological deficits and negative symptoms with tardive akathisia in chronic schizophrenic patients. Consecutive volunteers (n = 100) were recruited from Community Health Centres with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenic disorder, chronic and on stable medication. Subjects were subgrouped into tardive akathisia (TA), tardive dyskinesia (TD) and control groups using four sets of criteria. Detailed single examinations were performed using the following measures: sociodemographic, illness-related and treatment-related variables, Negative Symptom Rating Scale (NSRS), Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), Rating Scale for Extrapyramidal Side-Effects (EPSE), Akathisia Rating Scale, Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale, and a brief neuropsychological test battery. Group comparisons and logistic regression analyses were performed in order to test the significance of findings. TA ratings showed a significant association with NSRS subscale scores, and with some neuropsychological test scores (Symbol Digits Modalities Test, and to a lesser extent Trail Making Test and Finger Tapping Test). TD scores showed a consistent association with age, and a less consistent association with gender, and their association with NSRS subscale scores and neuropsychological dysfunction was positive but less significant. Higher EPSE scores predicted TA and limb truncal (LT) dyskinesia. In conclusion, TA showed a more significant association with some clinical indices of organic brain dysfunction than the oral-lingual-buccal-facial dyskinetic syndrome. Prospective studies are necessary to determine whether organicity is a vulnerability factor for TA. Both our data and the published literature suggest that the movement disorder seen in TA and TD is but one feature of complex syndromes that include motor and cognitive features.

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