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Palpebral twitching in a depressed adolescent on citalopram
1Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
Current estimates suggest that between 0.4% and 8.3% of children and adolescents are affected by major depression. We report a favorable response to treatment with citalopram by a 15-year-old boy with major depression who exhibited palpebral twitching during his first 2 weeks of treatment. This may have been a side effect of citalopram as it remitted with redistribution of doses.