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Mood and Behavioural Changes with Progestational Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Francis J. Kane Jr. ,
Robert J. Daly ,
John A. Ewing  and
Martin H. Keeler
Martin H. Keeler
Affiliation:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Steroid hormones may produce a wide variety of psychiatric syndromes (1), (2), and the progestational steroids are no exception. We were alerted to this by the occurrence of an acute schizophrenic psychosis following the withdrawal of 30 mg. Enovid (Enavid) daily, which was being used to control endometriosis (3). The patient's psychotic symptoms showed remission with drug replacement and relapse on placebo.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 496 , March 1967 , pp. 265 - 268
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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