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Clinical pharmacology

a rare, life-threatening reaction to antipsychotic drugs marked by fever, muscle rigidity, altered mental status and autonomic instability.

In clinical pharmacology, neuroleptic malignant syndrome refers to a rare, life-threatening reaction to antipsychotic drugs marked by fever, muscle rigidity, altered mental status and autonomic instability. This meaning comes from Levenson (1985) in American Journal of Psychiatry.[1]

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References

Levenson, J. L. (1985). Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 142(10), 1137-1145. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.10.1137

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