Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) effective for psychotic recrudescence and suicidality after varenicline adjunctive therapy for smoking cessation in a schizoaffective patient

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-316

  Tavares, Almir Ribeiro ^a   Volpe, Fernando Madalena ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO HOSPITALAR DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARENICLINE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; PSYCHOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM;

BENZAZEPINES; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; QUINOXALINES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING CESSATION; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 77958490557     PISSN: 15164446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-44462010000300017     Document Type: Letter

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