Delusional belief induced by clomiphene treatment
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Delusional Belief induced by clomiphene treatment.sxw
We report the case of a 35 year old women who developed a complex paranoid delusion during the course of clomiphene treatment für ovulation. The psychopathology was remarkable, because after a short hypomanic period the patient was without severe cognitive disturbance but struggled with a complex monothematic delusion. The delusion vanished in the course of a combination treatment with olanzapi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0278-5846
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2007.08.037