Pediatric Iatrogenic Movement Disorders

The acute development of a movement disorder is often a dramatic and frightening experience for patients and families, often requiring urgent or emergent evaluation by a neurologist. In the assessment of these patients, one relies on the history, physical and neurologic examination to determine the etiology of the condition. We aim to demonstrate that a thorough medication history is an incredibly critical part of this evaluation as iatrogenic movement disorders can arise from exposure not only to psychoactive medications, but from drugs prescribed for a variety of nonneurologic disorders.

Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - February 12, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Deepti Nagesh, Marcie Goeden, Keith A. Coffman Source Type: research