Confusional paranoid psychosis after withdrawal from sympathomimetic amines: two case reports
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (9), 1190-1191
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.9.1190
Abstract
Paranoid psychosis may result from intoxication with, or withdrawal from, amphetamines. Two cases of paranoid confusional psychosis commencing 1 wk after the patients'' withdrawal from sympathomimetic amines are described. The pathophysiology for this unusal disorder may be agonist-induced dopamine receptor hypersensitivity.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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