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It’s actually tardive dyskinesia (I assume you may have thought that the tardative stems from retarded as in intellectual disability). As far as I am aware, thi
by robbiep 5y ago
It’s actually tardive dyskinesia (I assume you may have thought that the tardative stems from retarded as in intellectual disability). As far as I am aware, this movement disorder does not have any causal relationship with intellectual disability.
I agree with the principle behind your other points though, in an ideal world we would not prescribe these medications to the elderly to ‘aid in management’
- grapist420 5y agowhoops. Looks like tardive actually refers to it developing late in the course of treatment, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive and dyskinesia refers to the actual disorder of movement