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There is growing evidence about the importance of motor symptoms in psychosis. Motor abnormalities have been observed in naive-drugs, first-episode patients. Clinical assessment of motor abnormalities normally relies upon subjective observer-based ratings. Kinematic analysis of handwriting has proved to be an objective measure of motor symptoms, but it has not been used in clinical settings.In the...
Antipsychotic drugs are effective in schizophrenic disorders, but they are also used to treat other psychiatric conditions. Typical antipsychotics cause important extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS), which frequently result in non-compliance with antipsychotic medication. It has been stated that the second-generation antipsychotics (atypical) provoke EPS side effects less frequently than typical antipsychotics...