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Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem

We are reporting a case of zolpidem induced multimodal hallucinations in a 22 year old female without any history of psychiatric disorders. Zolpidem, by acting on gamma-amino butyric acid type A receptor has a potential to cause a paradoxical reaction and there also exists a possibility of an induce...

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Autores principales: Ram, Dushad, Eiman, Najla, Gowdappa, Basavana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26243852
http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2015.13.2.215
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description We are reporting a case of zolpidem induced multimodal hallucinations in a 22 year old female without any history of psychiatric disorders. Zolpidem, by acting on gamma-amino butyric acid type A receptor has a potential to cause a paradoxical reaction and there also exists a possibility of an induced delirium with its use. This case reports evaluates its potential to cause multimodal hallucinations. Zolpidem needs to be prescribed judiciously with the caution of potential side effects particularly in females.
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spelling pubmed-45400462015-08-24 Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem Ram, Dushad Eiman, Najla Gowdappa, Basavana Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci Case Report We are reporting a case of zolpidem induced multimodal hallucinations in a 22 year old female without any history of psychiatric disorders. Zolpidem, by acting on gamma-amino butyric acid type A receptor has a potential to cause a paradoxical reaction and there also exists a possibility of an induced delirium with its use. This case reports evaluates its potential to cause multimodal hallucinations. Zolpidem needs to be prescribed judiciously with the caution of potential side effects particularly in females. Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2015-08 2015-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4540046/ /pubmed/26243852 http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2015.13.2.215 Text en Copyright © 2015, Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem
title_full Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem
title_fullStr Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem
title_full_unstemmed Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem
title_short Multimodal Hallucination (Audio-visual, Kinaesthetic and Scenic) Associated with the Use of Zolpidem
title_sort multimodal hallucination (audio-visual, kinaesthetic and scenic) associated with the use of zolpidem
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26243852
http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2015.13.2.215
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