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Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis

Anticholinergic drugs are commonly used in psychiatry to attenuate antipsychotic induced extrapyramidal syndrome (EPS). Psychosis as a side effect is generally explained under the rubric of anticholinergic toxicity or induced delirium. Anticholinergic induced worsening of psychosis in patients with...

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Autores principales: Das, Soumitra, Chatterjee, Seshadri Sekhar, Malathesh, Barikar Chandrappa
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32783023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100235
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description Anticholinergic drugs are commonly used in psychiatry to attenuate antipsychotic induced extrapyramidal syndrome (EPS). Psychosis as a side effect is generally explained under the rubric of anticholinergic toxicity or induced delirium. Anticholinergic induced worsening of psychosis in patients with normal cognition is extremely rare in literature. Here, we arepresenting a case of young female who was prescribed with multiple anticholinergics to reduce EPS, and each time had worsening of psychosis with intact cognition. We then discussed the possible neurobiological explanation with special reference to muscarinic hypothesis of schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-73710182020-08-10 Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis Das, Soumitra Chatterjee, Seshadri Sekhar Malathesh, Barikar Chandrappa Gen Psychiatr Case Report Anticholinergic drugs are commonly used in psychiatry to attenuate antipsychotic induced extrapyramidal syndrome (EPS). Psychosis as a side effect is generally explained under the rubric of anticholinergic toxicity or induced delirium. Anticholinergic induced worsening of psychosis in patients with normal cognition is extremely rare in literature. Here, we arepresenting a case of young female who was prescribed with multiple anticholinergics to reduce EPS, and each time had worsening of psychosis with intact cognition. We then discussed the possible neurobiological explanation with special reference to muscarinic hypothesis of schizophrenia. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7371018/ /pubmed/32783023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100235 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title_full Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title_fullStr Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title_full_unstemmed Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title_short Anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
title_sort anticholinergic medications even in therapeutic range can cause recurrence of psychosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32783023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100235
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