Visual and auditory hallucinations associated with citalopram treatment

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 583-584

  Waltereit, Robert ^a   Eifler, Sarah ^b   Schirmbeck, Frederike ^b   Zink, Mathias ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COLON POLYPOSIS; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LETTER; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MOOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CITALOPRAM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIANSERIN; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879841451     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: 1533712X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JCP.0b013e31829771ca     Document Type: Letter

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