Adrian is recovering from schizophrenia. She has been taking high doses of antipsychotic medications for a very long period of t
ime and has begun to experience uncontrollable movements of her mouth and tongue that make her appear as if she were chewing food in a very exaggerated way. Adrian is experiencing the symptoms of:__________ a) angina.
b) tardive dyskinesia.
c) blepharochalasis.
d) scleritis.
Schizophrenia may be defined as the condition in which the individual is unable to accept reality and interpret the reality in different ways. The symptoms are hallucination, disrupted speech and nehativity.
Tardive dyskenia is the medical condition in which the individual cannot control their hand and body movements. This condition might occur due to the medication that have been taken to treat the schizophrenia. The drugs inhibits the effects of dopamine that causes tardive dyskenia.
Tardive dyskinesia is a kind of side effect of the antipsychotic drugs. Such kind of drugs are used for the treatment of psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and other mental health disorders.
The side effects includes the uncontrolled movement of the body parts repeatedly and blinking of eyes.
According to the given situation, the high doses of antipsychotic medication has resulted in symptoms of tardive dyskinesia.
Mutation in the organism's DNA that is passed on to the offspring is that main cause of heritable phenotypic change in some members of a population that reproduces asexually. Repeated exposure of Plasmodium that is sensitive to artesunate strain to increasing dosage of artesunate led to the development of resistance in plasmodium because the genetic mutation occur in the plasmodium that provide resistance against artesunate.
