VIDEO: How pharmacologic treatments reduce symptoms of TD

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Yes, so pharmacological treatments definitely can reduce symptoms of TD. As I was mentioning before, the new agents that are added are very like symptomatic therapies for TD, which can reduce the severity of the movements, particularly when the movements are more chorea form in nature. Botulinum toxin injections have been approved for the treatment of dystonia for many years now. And that includes tardive dystonia patients, certainly in my practice, who I see who come in with very fixed dystonias that are presumably caused by exposure to neuroleptics or prokinetic agents respond very nicely to these injections. So these treatments can definitely be very, very helpful. There's also oral medications that we would use to treat mixed movement disorders, agents like clonazepam, for example, which we used in the movement disorder field to treat all kinds of different movement disorders: tremor, dystonia, chorea certainly also help for the treatment of tardive. And then as I was mentioning before, there are these other agents that are more experimental and have less of evidence behind them but can also be employed. So there is a number of different strategies to try to mitigate the severity of these symptoms. And I think the importance is recognition of the symptoms and early referral if possible to a limited or a specialist who can offer these treatments to the patients.