The Role of Antidepressants in Neuroliptic Malignant Syndrome

Most of the drugs that we give to patients with mental illness, many of them at least, have sedating effects. Antidepressants have a major impact on the cytochrome systems and if you like your protein systems, you've got to look it up. The more antipsychotics a person is on and the higher the doses, the higher the risk of this condition. It's such a difficult diagnosis to make unless they present with a full house; usually don't.