Psychiatric side effects of medications prescribed in internal medicine

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Table I. Risk factors for psychiatric side effects (PSEs).

Table II. Differential diagnoses of psychiatric side effects (PSEs) of medications.

Table III. Psychiatric side effects potentially induced by pharmacological treatment.

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