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Surgery for tardive dyskinesia.
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is an often bothersome side effect of antipsychotic treatment. Medical treatment options are usually disappointing. A few single case reports have suggested some efficacy of lesionning surgery (i.e. pallidotomy or thalamotomy). A much greater number of series (including one controlled-study) have assessed the effects of deep brain stimulation applied to the internal globus pallidus. All of them have shown a marked improvement of motor symptoms without any major psychiatric side effects.
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