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- adjective Relating to or involving neural pathways situated outside or independent of the pyramidal tracts.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
neural pathways that areindependent of thepyramidal tract
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The May 19, 2009 JAMA article notes that Correll's study "adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that children and adolescents are more vulnerable to antipsychotic adverse events, including not only weight gain and lipid abnormalities, but also sedation, extrapyramidal adverse effects, prolactin elevation, and withdrawal."
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Lately, I've been struggling with extrapyramidal side effects due to Seroquel, a pill I take to prevent psychotic episodes.
Liz Spikol: New Technology and New Clothing for People with Autism 2008
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These first generation antipsychotics FGAs are associated with major side effects-namely acute extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia.
Archive 2006-10-01 james gaulte 2006
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Activity; speed and rhythm; extrapyramidal, frontal, and cerebellar features; catatonic features; minor neurologic signs
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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For example, the piperazine phenothiazines are 10 to 30 times as potent in inducing extrapyramidal signs as are other classes of phenothiazines 109.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Antiparkinson drug use carries risks and should be withheld until sufficient extrapyramidal symptoms develop to warrant treatment.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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In lethal catatonia, hyperthermia is present at the outset, other extrapyramidal features are absent if the clinician did not prematurely administer a neuroleptic, and postures often are odd and associated with echophenomena.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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When the patient has received an anticholinergic antiparkinsonian agent for extrapyramidal side effects of neuroleptics for at least several months, this drug can be discontinued abruptly with only a small risk of an extrapyramidal symptom relapse.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Chapter 3 describes extrapyramidal and cerebellar motor tests.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Cyclic antidepressants and lithium have been associated with extrapyramidal syndromes 73, 477.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
jwjarvis commented on the word extrapyramidal
The corticospinal or pyramidal tract is a collection of axons that travel between the cerebral cortex of the brain and the spinal cord.
....mostly motor axons
March 21, 2011