Use of clozapine to treat levodopa-induced psychosis in Parkinson's disease: retrospective review

LP Widman, WJ Burke, RF Pfeiffer… - Journal of geriatric …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
Levodopa-induced psychosis can complicate the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). In
this retrospective, uncontrolled report, we describe our experience treating PD-related
psychosis with clozapine, emphasizing those patients treated for longer than 1 year. Twenty-
seven patients were treated, 14 for longer than 1 year. Most patients showed a rapid
improvement from baseline within 1 month using the Clinical Global Impression and Global
Psychosis Rating Scores. Five patients discontinued the drug due to side effects, but only …
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