Akinetic crisis, acute akinesia, neuroleptic malignant‐like syndrome, Parkinsonism–hyperpyrexia syndrome, and malignant syndrome are the same entity and are often independent of treatment withdrawal

A reply to this letter has been published in Movement Disorders Mov Disord (2005)DOI 10.1002/mds.20688.

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