Brian Learoyd
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Brian Learoyd is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychiatric hospital & Tonsillectomy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications.
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Psychotropic drugs and the elderly patient.
TL;DR: Of 236 patients over the age of 65 years admitted to a regional psychogeriatric service, at least 37 presented disorders that were directly attributable to the ill‐effects of psychoactive drugs, which varied from excessive sedation with confusion, disorientation and syncope, to disinhibition reactions with aggressive outbursts.
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A survey of drug usage among patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
TL;DR: The survey demonstrated inconsistencies between patients' reports of their recent drug or alcohol intake and the laboratory findings, and inadequacies in the information recorded and relayed to the laboratory at the time of patients' admission to the hospital.
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Legislating AIDS away
TL;DR: ' developed obstruction after ESWL, and about a third showed parenchymal subcapsular or perirenal haemorrhage as revealed by magnetic resonance imaging.