Abstract
Movement disorders refer to any disruption of voluntary movement including involuntary muscle activity, though often people use the term to refer to extrapyramidal syndromes caused by antipsychotics.
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Annamalai, A. (2017). Introduction to Movement Disorders. In: Medical Management of Psychotropic Side Effects. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51026-2_34
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