Akathisia treatment anticholinergics

THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION It is very common to refer to akathisia to be lumped together with other movement disorders like medication-induced parkinsonism into a category of “extrapyramidal symptoms.” This then leads to clinicians prescribing anticholinergic medications like benztropine (brand name Cogentin) for the treatment of akathisia. I have been seeing this for many…