Mefloquine-induced paranoid psychosis and subsequent major depression in a 25-year-old student

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 200-202

  Dietz, A ^a   Frölich, Lutz ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPERIDEN; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; MEFLOQUINE; MIRTAZAPINE; OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALARIA; MALE; NAUSEA; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; STUDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; PARANOID DISORDERS;

EID: 0036745316     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34114     Document Type: Article

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