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[Pseudo-hallucinations after long-term lithium treatment]
1Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim.
Der Nervenarzt
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 58-year old women with a history of recurrent depressive episodes had been on successful prophylaxis with lithium carbonate in controlled therapeutic dosage for 11 years. At this time she experienced with increasing frequency mostly visual, sometimes auditory pseudohallucinations which disappeared after stopping the lithium medication. Because a subsequent depressive episode did not respond to tricyclic antidepressants or to a MAO-inhibitor the patient was again prescribed lithium. At therapeutic lithium blood levels the previous perceptual disorders then returned.