Successful treatment of co-morbid schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has both neurological and psychiatric manifestations. Though depression, bipolar disorder and la belle indifference are commonly described, schizophrenia-like-psychosis is not widely reported with MS. Drug interactions and side effects make treatment, in such scenario, challenging. We, for the first time, report a patient with MS and paranoid schizophrenia successfully treated with concurrent use of clozapine and risperidone with interferon-beta-1a.
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences [NIMHANS], Bangalore, India.
Eesha
E
Sharma
Naren P
NP
Rao
Ganesan
G
Venkatasubramanian
Rishikesh V
RV
Behere
Shivarama
S
Varambally
Bangalore N
BN
Gangadhar