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Behavioural Sensitisation and Steroid-Induced Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard S. Mullen  and
Sarah E. Romans-Clarkson
Richard S. Mullen*
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 8AZ
Sarah E. Romans-Clarkson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

As yet, there is no satisfactory model with which to understand steroid-induced mental disorder. It is suggested that a case of prednisone-induced psychosis in an adolescent female with Chrohn's disease can be best understood in terms of behavioural sensitisation to steroid therapy.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 549 - 551
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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