Depression and attempted suicide under pregabalin therapy

Originally developed for the treatment of epilepsy, pregabalin has become a compound with a wide spectrum of indications comprising anxiety disorders and chronic pain and is therefore largely prescribed. Thus, it is important for clinicians to be aware of rare, but serious adverse effects. The follo...

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Autores principales: Kustermann, Andreas, Möbius, Cornelia, Oberstein, Timo, Müller, Helge H, Kornhuber, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25489334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-014-0037-8
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author Kustermann, Andreas
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description Originally developed for the treatment of epilepsy, pregabalin has become a compound with a wide spectrum of indications comprising anxiety disorders and chronic pain and is therefore largely prescribed. Thus, it is important for clinicians to be aware of rare, but serious adverse effects. The following report illustrates the case of a 20-year-old male with a severe depressive syndrome following pregabalin medication which even led to a suicide attempt.
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spelling pubmed-42588122014-12-09 Depression and attempted suicide under pregabalin therapy Kustermann, Andreas Möbius, Cornelia Oberstein, Timo Müller, Helge H Kornhuber, Johannes Ann Gen Psychiatry Case Report Originally developed for the treatment of epilepsy, pregabalin has become a compound with a wide spectrum of indications comprising anxiety disorders and chronic pain and is therefore largely prescribed. Thus, it is important for clinicians to be aware of rare, but serious adverse effects. The following report illustrates the case of a 20-year-old male with a severe depressive syndrome following pregabalin medication which even led to a suicide attempt. BioMed Central 2014-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4258812/ /pubmed/25489334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-014-0037-8 Text en © Kustermann et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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