Tardive dyskinesia is a common side effect caused by antipsychotic use. It is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive movements, often involving the face, mouth, tongue, and ...

Differentiating tardive dyskinesia from other movement disorders can be challenging. "One major criterion is the history of exposure to neuroleptic medications," said Jeff Bronstein, MD, PhD, of the ...

Tardive dyskinesia can affect many areas of your life, including your social life and self-confidence. Learning how to manage these effects can help improve your overall well-being and daily ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be helpful in severe cases of tardive dyskinesia that doesn’t respond to other treatments. Tardive dyskinesia (TD) causes involuntary movements of the tongue, neck, ...

Antipsychotic treatment can cause involuntary movements such as lip smacking, tongue protrusions and excessive eye blinking. These movements typically occur after more than 3 months of treatment and ...

Tardive dyskinesia causes involuntary movements in some people taking antipsychotic medications. Here’s what you need to know about this movement disorder. Antipsychotic medications are a mainstay of ...

The gold standard is the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale, or the AIMS, although generally we kind of want to avoid premature TD labels, and we want to ensure that there's a causal link, in this ...

Christoph U. Correll, MD, professor of psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and professor and chair of the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Charité ...

Credit: Getty Images This patient fact sheet describes the medications that are known to induce tardive dyskinesia, its symptoms, and ways in which the disease state may be managed. Our easy-to-read ...

Majority of Participants Reached a Defined Threshold for Remission of Tardive Dyskinesia Regardless of Underlying Psychiatric Disorder Findings Presented at the 2025 Psychiatry Update Conference ...

Tardive dyskinesia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder that causes faces to move involuntarily and abnormally. It is considered to be a drug-induced movement disorder. Movements often occur in the ...