Citation

Brown TM, Golden RN, Evans DL. Br. J. Psychiatry 1990; 156: 572-575.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2386871

Abstract

A patient experienced an organic affective psychosis on three separate occasions after taking recommended doses of non-prescription cold/sinus preparations. The possible underlying pharmacological mechanisms of this clinical reaction lend support to the cholinergic-adrenergic balance hypothesis of affective disorders. Recognition of this acute drug-induced state can lead to appropriate short-term pharmacotherapy and can prevent misdiagnosis of a major affective disorder or schizophrenia.

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