Development of obsessive-compulsive symptoms during clozapine treatment in schizophrenia and its positive response to clomipramine [1]

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-112

  Biondi, Massimo ^a   Fedele, L ^a   Arcangeli, T ^a   Pancheri, P ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; CLOZAPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OBSESSION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0033050466     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012321     Document Type: Letter

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