Neuroleptic treatment of alcohol hallucinosis: Case series [3]

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 291-292

  Soyka, M ^a,b   Taschner B ^b   Clausius, N ^b  

^a Psychiatric Hospital Meiringen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUPENTIXOL; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL PSYCHOSIS; ALCOHOLISM; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HALLUCINOSIS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MALE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 36849088235     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-992144     Document Type: Letter

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