Fluoxetine, Akathisia, and Suicidality: Is There a Causal Connection?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 580-581

  Wirshing, William C ^a   Van Putten, Theodore ^b   Rosenberg, James ^b   Marder, Stephen ^b   Ames, Donna ^b   Hicks Gray, Tara ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUPHENAZINE; IMIPRAMINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LIOTHYRONINE SODIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LORAZEPAM; NORTRIPTYLINE; PHENELZINE; PROPRANOLOL; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; AKATHISIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LETTER; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SCHIZOIDISM; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AKATHISIA, DRUG-INDUCED; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 0026718712     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820070074012     Document Type: Letter

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