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Norepinephrinergic antidepressants may increase self-injurious behavior in autistic syndromes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R Krabe  and
P Bovier
R Krabe
Affiliation:
Division de Psychiatrie du Développement mental, Institutions universitaires de psychiatrie Genève (IUPG), 2, chemin du petit Bel-Air, CH-1225 Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland
P Bovier
Affiliation:
Division de Psychiatrie du Développement mental, Institutions universitaires de psychiatrie Genève (IUPG), 2, chemin du petit Bel-Air, CH-1225 Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland
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Summary

There have been many contradictory reports on the effectiveness of antidepressant drug treatments in autistic syndromes with sell-injurious behavior (SIB). We report a retrospective case study in which norepinephrinergic antidepressants (inhibitors of the re-uptake of norepinephrine) increased SIB each time they were administered.

Keywords

self-injurious behaviorantidepressantsautism
Type
Case report
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , 1994 , pp. 309 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 1994

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