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- Title
Improvement of Tardive Dyskinesia during Mindfulness Meditation.
- Authors
Santoro, Maria Angela; English, Isolde; Sezer, Idil; Amagat, Mickael; Ly, Frank; Chaneac, Edouard; Cailliez, Patricia; Bottemanne, Hugo
- Abstract
Background: We report the case of a patient presenting with orofacial tardive dyskinesia (TD), following administration of a first-generation antipsychotic (Loxapine). Intervention: Four weeks of repeated sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) protocols were administered, with TD hetero-quantified before and during each session via the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). Results: The dyskinesia ameliorated quantitatively and qualitatively (1) during each session, and (2) at resting conditions in the long term. During some sessions, after which patients' compliance was auto-evaluated as maximal, complete arrest of the TD was observed. Hypothesis and Conclusion: We suggest mindfulness meditation as a novel adjunctive therapeutic approach for tardive dyskinesia, and invite for further clinical and neurological investigations.
- Subjects
TARDIVE dyskinesia; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS-based cognitive therapy; THERAPEUTICS; MEDITATION
- Publication
Neurology International, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 3, p439
- ISSN
2035-8377
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3390/neurolint13030043