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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-871242
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Pseudohallucinations Associated with Moclobemide
A Case ReportPublication History
Reveived: 15.9.2004
Revised: 13.1.2005
Accepted: 2.3.2005
Publication Date:
18 July 2005 (online)
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The goal of the multicenter drug surveillance project AMSP (”Arzneimittelsicherheit in der Psychiatrie”) is the monitoring, assessment and analysis of adverse drug reactions (ADR) of psychopharmalogical drugs. We report about a 23 year-old patient with a depressive episode. He developed severe pseudohallucinations under a treatment with moclobemide. The symptoms occur 6 days after starting the medication and decline within two days after stopping moclobemide. The term "pseudohallucinations" is discussed controversially but still of high interest.
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Dr. Detlef Degner
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Georg-August University Göttingen
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