Akathisia: clinical features
Evidence-based neurology checklist on akathisia: clinical features: Description This is an inner sense of restlessness Subjects find it difficult to sit or stand still There is a compulsion to move continuously It may be focal or generalised Classification Clinical features Complications…
Description
- This is an inner sense of restlessness
- Subjects find it difficult to sit or stand still
- There is a compulsion to move continuously
- It may be focal or generalised
Classification
Clinical features
Complications
Differential diagnosis
References
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