The unusual side effect of excessive sexual desire with paroxetine use

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 40-42

  Samuel, Roger Z ^a  

^a Boca Raton Psychiatric Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLORAZEPATE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; LINSEED OIL; METHYLPHENIDATE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SILYBUM MARIANUM EXTRACT; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; INSOMNIA; LIBIDO DISORDER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SELF MEDICATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIDE EFFECT; YAWNING;

EID: 33645126855     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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