Asian patients prescribed psychiatric medications:
a. exhibit better response to antidepressants and phenothiazine than do African-American patients.
b. have less tendency to abuse alcohol with their medications than do white patients.
c. have extrapyramidal side effects at lower dosage levels than do other ethnic groups.
d. experience fewer side effects when taking anticholinergic medications than do white patients taking the same dosage.
C
The occurrence of extrapyramidal side effects among Asians is the only statement about racial/ethnic psychobiological differences listed that is accurate.
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