Menstruation-related psychosis

Psychosis following Tramadol Withdrawal

Abstract Background: Tramadol is a centrally acting opioid analgesic used to treat moderate to sever pain. It has more advantage and less opioid adverse effects than conventional opioid analgesia. Case Report: This article reports a patient with tramadol dependency that had psychosis after tramadol withdrawal. Conclusion: By the increase of tramadol usage for relief of chronic pain, t...

Case of Vicarious Menstruation

Postictal psychosis related regional cerebral hyperfusion.

PD-related psychosis: pathophysiology with therapeutical strategies.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative disease with degeneration of the central dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to a depletion of dopamine (DA) in the striatum. This depletion causes the clinical hallmarks of this disease: bradykinesia, hypokinesia, rigidity, tremor and postural instability. Besides these well known motor symptoms, non-motor symptoms may ...

A patient with mexiletine-related psychosis

Mexiletine is a commonly used Class IB (Vaughan William classification) antiarrhythmic drug. We report a case of mexiletine-induced psychosis that was successfully managed by decreasing the dose and using alternative medications for management of ventricular tachycardia.