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Thank you for taking time to read and consider my findings.
I know my monograph will say something very new and, I think, very important about the akathisia I believe we have all very inadequately recognized since our residencies! I hope you will be excited by the prospects I offer for achieving far better treatment results for psychosis and depression from my new conception of akathisia – what I have come to call ‘expanded akathisia’.... Click for more
I had been on a journey of discovery for over 27 years - - until my retirement from psychiatry 8 years ago - - regarding the diagnosis, treatment, prevalence, and enormous importance of akathisia. It began with two articles, one by Zubenko et al. in 1984 (50) and the other by Adler et al. in 1987 (51) describing a new medicine for it, clonidine. So I tried it and found it much more effective than propranolol (Inderal) or benztropine (Cogentin), the 2 primary treatments then, and I suspect, still now. In a continuing adventure, I came to know that akathisia is far more prevalent, far more consequential -- especially for achieving treatment success vs. our all-too-usual therapeutic failures and partial successes now -- and far more important to good psychiatric care than we presently realize. My discoveries brought an enormous enhancement to my patients’ responses to medication...Click for more