Not Signed In - Prozac counters emotional turmoil after stroke
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:30 PM EST
... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) may help relieve certain emotional disturbances in patients who''ve suffered a stroke, Korean researchers report. As senior investigator Dr. Jong S. Kim told Reuters Health, Prozac significantly improved "emotional incontinence and anger proneness, but not depression." ...
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- Fluoxetine
- Stroke
- Emotional Disorders
- Mini-Strokes
- Behavioral Disorders
- Calorie Counters
- Emotional distress because of appearance
- Spasticity
- May be susceptible to physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
- Brain injury that results in physical, emotional, or intellectual changes or deficits
- Fluoxetine Oral Solution
- Hemorrhagic stroke
- Stroke related to cocaine use
- Stroke secondary to FMD
- Stroke secondary to atherosclerosis
- Stroke secondary to syphilis
- Stroke secondary to carotid dissection
- Stroke secondary to carotid stenosis
- Stroke secondary to cardiogenic embolism
- Stroke, if clots break off and travel to the brain (drugs that thin the blood such as heparin and warfarin can reduce the risk)
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