Baclofen Overdose Presenting as Psychosis with Catatonia

Baclofen is a centrally acting gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor agonist with many therapeutic uses in neurology and psychiatry. An overdose of baclofen is known to cause serious side effects such as encephalopathy, seizures, respiratory depression, and delirium. Association of baclofen with psychosis has also been reported. In this case report, we are highlighting the manifestation of catatonic features in addition to psychosis following baclofen overdose.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_291_17PMID 29200574PMCID 5688905
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• Baclofen overdose manifested with both psychosis and catatonic features in the reported case.

  Confidence 0.97

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• baclofen overdose

  clinical event

  An acute toxic exposure to baclofen described as the clinical event underlying the reported presentation.

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• catatonia

  condition

  A syndrome of abnormal motor, behavioral, or psychomotor features described here as part of the presentation.

  Aliases: catatonic features

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• psychosis

  condition

  A mental state characterized by impaired reality testing, used here as part of the overdose presentation.

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