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- Title
Nicotine Decreases Bradykinesia-rigidity in Haloperidol-treated Patients with Schizophrenia
- Authors
Yang, Yen Kuang; Nelson, Leann; Kamaraju, Lakshmi; Wilson, William; McEvoy, Joseph P.
- Abstract
We applied nicotine 21 mg and matching placebo transdermal patches to thirty haloperidol-treated patients with schizophrenia who smoked. Clinical assessments of bradykinesia-rigidity were lower during nicotine patch administration than during placebo patch administration.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with schizophrenia; NICOTINE
- Publication
Neuropsychopharmacology, 2002, Vol 27, Issue 4, p684
- ISSN
0893-133X
- Publication type
Article