A case study evaluating the use of clozapine in depression with psychotic features

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jeyapaul, Premkumar ^a   Vieweg, Ray ^b  

^a Wimborne and Purbeck Community Mental Health Team   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; HALOPERIDOL; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 33845672653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-5-20     Document Type: Article

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