Do depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraceptive injections cause mood changes and memory impairment?

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 59-60

  Gabriel, Adel ^a,b   Fahim, Galal ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INJECTION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SIDE EFFECT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 18144409089     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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