Akathisia (Restless Legs Syndrome) in People With Schizophrenia and Mental Retardation

Completed

Conditions studied: Akathisia

In brief

Akathisia is a movement disorder that is often a side effect of certain psychiatric drugs. People with akathisia are unable to sit or keep still, complain of restlessness, fidget, rock from foot to foot, and pace. Akathisia is sometimes called "restless legs syndrome." The drugs that can cause akathisia are most often used to treat patients with schizophrenia or mental retardation (MR). This study will evaluate akathisia in both schizophrenic and MR patients who either have long-term akathisia or who are starting treatment with psychiatric drugs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00065286

Run by

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Starts

1996-12-01

Expected to finish

1999-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2005-06-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Psychotropic drugs such as serotonin re-uptake inhibiting anti-depressants
• Nonambulatory
• Uncontrolled seizure disorders
• Fragile X syndrome
• Down Syndrome
• Neurological disease that is known to have definitive symptoms of choreoathetosis, dystonia, Syndenham's chorea, etc.

Where it is running

• Western Carolina Center — Morganton, North Carolina, United States
• Department of Kinesiology — University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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