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A 51-year-old gentleman was admitted with a history of severe depression with marked agitation in the background of cocaine abuse. He had multiple medical problems like deep vein thrombosis, hepatitis C and tardive dyskinesia. Besides him being on antidepressant medication, risperidone was
OBJECTIVE
Decreased appetite is one of the main factors that influences quality of life of patients with chronic liver diseases. The reason for appetite disorders remains unclear but taste perturbations are one of the postulated causes. The potential role of taste alterations and, connected to
Clozapine is, and will remain in the coming years, an irreplaceable drug in psychiatry which has elective indication in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, suicide risk in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, aggressiveness or violence in psychiatric patients, psychosis in Parkinson's disease,
Subjects with a variety of enteropathies, hemolytic anemias, acute respiratory distress syndrome, hepatitis, Gaucher's disease as well as those on TPN and hemodialysis, often have low ("deficient") blood levels of vitamin E. A deficiency of vitamin E can be manifested by accelerated red blood cell
This article reviews antipsychotic medication side effects, especially those that require the physician to discontinue or the patient to be noncompliant with otherwise useful medication. They include such common problems as extrapyramidal syndromes (dystonia, akathisia, drug-induced Parkinsonism,
BACKGROUND
Patients with chronic liver diseases have a taste disorder and altered zinc metabolism. We investigated the effects of a supplement enriched with branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) (Aminofeel) on sensitivity to different tastes in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected liver
OBJECTIVE
To study the efficacy and safety of olanzapine for the treatment of children with autism associated with disruptive behavior problems.
METHODS
A prospective open-label trial was conducted on 40 male children (mean age 12.2 +/- 2.2 years, range 7-17 years) meeting Diagnostic Statistical