Hi, I am a carer for my dad as he suffers from schizophrenia, as well as temporal lobe epilepsy and chronic depression (almost certainly caused by the schizophrenia). He began acting very strangely about two years ago, not in the usual way he does with the schizophrenia, but more confused, incoherent  falling alot, shaking. He was taken into hospital to have anti-psychotics changed to clozapine (you have to be hospitalised when being put on clozapine) and these symptoms got worse. He was diagnosed with neuroleptic malignant syndrome eventually in hospital, which is a rare, life-threatening adverse reaction to anti-psychotic medication. He was immediately taken off the clozapine and is now on Quetiapine and the neuroleptic malignant syndrome is gone. But after having been suffering from the NMS undiagnosed for a year and a half he seems to be left with quite considerable short term memory loss, shakes and involuntary muscle spasms. The GP said that these symptoms should go away after a year. Does anyone know if the doctor is right, its been almost a year and nothing has alleviated  infact, i think it might be getting slightly worse? im worried that he has been left permanantly brain damaged or something? help?