Bifrontal ECT for drug-induced psychosis in Parkinson′s disease
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Drug Abuse and Psychosis: New Insights into Drug-induced Psychosis
Addictive drug use or prescribed medicine abuse can cause psychosis. Some representative symptoms frequently elicited by patients with psychosis are hallucination, anhedonia, and disrupted executive functions. These psychoses are categorized into three classifications of symptoms: positive, negative, and cognitive. The symptoms of DIP are not different from the symptoms of schizophrenia, and it...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0019-5545
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.82549