Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Case Report

Clozapine and Aripiprazole-Induced Stuttering: A Case Report of Turner Syndrome with Schizophrenia

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Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Psychiatry, Canakkale - Turkey

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Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Family Medicine, Canakkale - Turkey

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Corlu State Hospital, Clinic of Psychiatry, Tekirdag - Turkey

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Canakkale State Hospital, Clinic of Psychiatry, Canakkale - Turkey

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Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Otolaryngology, Canakkale - Turkey

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2016; 26: 422-425
DOI: 10.5455/bcp.20151204115654
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Turner Syndrome (TS) is the most common chromosomal anomaly in women. Its psychiatric manifestations have not been clearly defined. Occurrence of schizophrenia is higher in patients with TS than in the normal population. The literature has reported instances associating stuttering as a side effect of antipsychotic drugs, particularly clozapine-induced stuttering. We found only one case report describing aripiprazole-associated stuttering. In the present case report, we present a female patient with TS-diagnosed schizophrenia who had been treated with aripiprazole because she developed stuttering during treatment with clozapine and then developed dose-dependent stuttering with aripiprazole.

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