Evaluation of a complex case: the value of a drug washout period
| Autor: | Jayendra K. Patel, Ming T. Tsuang, Anthony Kalinowski, Alan I. Green |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Antisocial personality disorder Middle Aged Neuropsychological Tests medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Schizophrenic Psychology Haloperidol medicine Humans Bipolar disorder Psychology Psychiatry medicine.drug media_common Psychopathology Antipsychotic Agents |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of psychiatry. 154(12) |
| ISSN: | 0002-953X |
| Popis: | Mr. A is a 50-year-old single man with a 38-year history of psychiatric difficulties, presently a patient on our Research and Evaluation Unit, whose case has stimulated active (and at times angry) debate among those caring for him regarding his diagnosis and most appropriate treatment. His case is presented to elucidate how a drug washout period can help establish a diagnosis, which for him has vacillated between psychosis (schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) and antisocial personality disorder. |
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