Author Question: Patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications sometimes develop severe side effects ... (Read 125 times)

fbq8i · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications sometimes develop severe side effects such as akinesia, a Parkinsonian symptom that includes all of the following EXCEPT

a. hand tremors.
b. hand tremors.
c. slowed movements.
d. monotonous speech.

Question 2

Extrapyramidal symptoms, serious side effects of antipsychotic medications that occur in some patients with schizophrenia, are similar to the symptoms of

a. Alzheimer's disease.
b. Parkinson's disease.
c. multiple sclerosis.
d. leukemia.