Response to high doses of citalopram in treatment‐resistant obsessive‐compulsive disorder
- 13 November 1998
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 98 (5) , 423-424
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb10108.x
Abstract
We report a severe case of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) that responded to very high doses of citalopram (160mg/day) after a poor response to clomipramine 250 mg/day for several years, alone or in combination with buspirone 30 mg/day or flupenthixol 4 mg/day. The patient had previously been submitted for capsulotomy which was declined, probably due to the magical content of her obsessions, which resembled delusions.Keywords
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