Mirtazapine treatment for pathological laughing and crying after stroke

Clinical Neuropharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 249-251

  Kim, Sung Wan ^a,b   Shin, Il Seon ^a,b   Kim, Jae Min ^a,b   Lim, So Yeon ^a   Yang, Su Jin ^a   Yoon, Jin Sang ^a,b  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bupropion; Mirtazapine; Pathological laughing and crying; Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; CITALOPRAM; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREMOR;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BUPROPION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CRYING; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LAUGHTER; LORAZEPAM; MIANSERIN; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 27644437784     PISSN: 03625664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnf.0000185825.34819.ba     Document Type: Article

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