Neuropsychiatric reactions to drugs: An analysis of spontaneous reports from general practitioners in Italy

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-216

  Galatti, Laura ^a   Giustini, Saffi Ettore ^b   Sessa, Aurelio ^b   Polimeni, Giovanni ^a   Salvo, Francesco ^a   Spina, Edoardo ^a   Caputi, Achille P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Italian College of General Practitioners   (Italy)

Author keywords

General practice; Neuropsychiatric reactions; Spontaneous reporting

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CELECOXIB; CITALOPRAM; FLUINDOSTATIN; KETOPROFEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEBIVOLOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NIMESULIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PAROXETINE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RAMIPRIL; ROFECOXIB; SERTRALINE; SIMVASTATIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TELMISARTAN; TIZANIDINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

AGITATION; AMNESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; DATA BASE; DELUSION; DIZZINESS; DYSKINESIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; HYPOKINESIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; IMPOTENCE; INSOMNIA; ITALY; MYELITIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PARESTHESIA; PARONIRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOTOMA; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 12344295260     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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