SAGE Journals Online
Advertisement
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Psychopharmacology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
0269881107082905v1
22/7/812    most recent
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Dimopoulos, N.P.
Right arrow Articles by Psarra, V. V.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Dimopoulos, N.P.
Right arrow Articles by Psarra, V. V.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Article

Delusional disorder, somatic type treated with aripiprazole-mirtazapine combination

N.P. Dimopoulos1*, Charalambos I. Mitsonis2, and Vassiliki V. Psarra2

1 Psychiatric Clinic, Asklepeion Hospital, Athens, Greece.
2 Psychiatric Hospital of Attiki, Dafni - Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

Delusional disorder, somatic type (DDST) is a rare psychiatric disorder and the treatment is mostly based on observations, due to the lack of wellorganized studies. Initially, antipsychotics and especially pimozide were considered to be the pharmacological approach of choice but, subsequently, tryciclic anti-depressants and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were also suggested to be effective, implicating the serotonergic system in the pathophysiology of the disorder. We present the case of a female with DDST, who responded to aripiprazole-mirtazapine combination, a finding that is in accordance with the initial approach of this disorder as a part of the schizophrenic spectrum, but also supports the hypothesis of serotonin dysfunction in DDST.

Key Words: delusional disorder, somatic type, aripiprazole, mirtazapine

First published on February 28, 2008, doi:10.1177/0269881107082905

Journal of Psychopharmacology 2008;22:812.

A more recent version of this article appeared on September 1, 2008

Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?




Advertisement