Attempted strangulation during phenothiazine-induced sleep-walking and night terrors.
A patient who resumed sleep-walking as an adult is described. The failure to diagnose his disturbed nocturnal behaviour as sleep-walking kept him from his work for over 8 months, and led to a treatment which exacerbated the behaviour. The diagnosis was made when the patient attempted to strangle his wife.
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University Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced*; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D013881:Thioridazine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014754:Violence
D013881:Thioridazine