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The medical expression tardive dysphrenia was proposed by the American neurologist Stanley Fahn the head of the Division of Movements Disorders of the Neurological Institute of New York in collaboration with the psychiatrist David V Forrest in the 1970s. It originally was linked to a unique rare behavioral/mental neuroleptic drug-induced tardive syndrome observed in psychiatric patients (schizophrenia in particular) treated with the typical antipsychotic drugs or neuroleptics.