Parkinsonism

In 1982, a number of young California drug addicts developed acute and severe parkinsonism after intravenous injection of a synthetic heroin contaminated by MPTP.

However, it is important for the clinician to consider alternative diagnoses, particularly treatable, potentially reversible syndromes such as drug-induced parkinsonism, hydrocephalus and other structural abnormalities, Wilson's disease, and some forms of toxic, metabolic, and infectious parkinsonism.

Can risperidone cause parkinsonism? What evidence suggests that J.R. has antipsychotic-induced parkinsonism?

[…] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]