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. 1981 Apr-Jun;23(2):184–185.

CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION

E Mohan Das 1, D Mohan 2
PMCID: PMC3013174  PMID: 22065137

SUMMARY

Drugs are known to induce depressive states. Chloroquine, an antimalarial, in therapeutic doses administered for malaria therapy, may produce symptoms rather indistinguishable from endogenous depression. The possible mechanisms of production of depression related to chloroquine use are hypothesised.

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