Treatment of catatonia with low-dose lorazepam
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (9) , 1224-1225
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.9.1224
Abstract
The authors describe three patients who each had a catatonic syndrome associated with affective psychosis and who responded dramatically to low doses of lorazepam.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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