Psychiatric side-effects of medications: recent developments
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Medications often induce neuropsychiatric side-effects. This article reviews psychiatric side-effects that are well known and describes those induced by recently developed medications. Therapeutic innovations have been prominent in the treatment of HIV infection, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy and therefore psychiatric side-effects caused by these agents are described in more detail. Nora Turjanski is currently a specialist registrar in liaison psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and has previously trained as a neurologist. Geoffrey Lloyd is a consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital (Liaison Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QG, UK. Tel: 020 783
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تاریخ انتشار 2004