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[Dysphagia] Tardive dyskinesia
- Subject: [Dysphagia] Tardive dyskinesia
- From: eripley at yahoo.com (Irene Campbell-Taylor)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
There is no standard treatment for tardive dyskinesia. Replacing the neuroleptic drug with substitute drugs may help. Other drugs such as benzodiazepines, adrenergic antagonists, and dopamine agonists may also help but I have never seen anything that approaches a ?cure?. Administration of branched-chain amino acids has been reported to markedly reduce the movements of TD in a group of adult men with TD. Other anecdotal treatments include vitamin E, levodopa, benzodiazepines, botulinum toxin, reserpine, tetrabenazine. Ondansetron, a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 antagonist, has helped some.
Dr I Campbell-Taylor
Clinical Neuroscientist
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