Coprolalia y copropraxia inducida por bupropión en un paciente autista y con trastorno obsesivo compulsivo

Abstract

The case is presented of a 41-year-old male, admitted since age 26 to the Residential and Rehabilitation Unit with the diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and under treatment with fluvoxamine, valproic, topiramate, risperidone and clonazepam. After a period of stability, a picture compatible with a major depressive episode appear, which is treated with bupropion, in order to affect the symptoms of apathy and psychomotor slowness. There is a rapid recovery in two weeks, but he begins to present copropraxia and coprolalia, which he had never presented before. Bupropion is withdrawn and coprolalia disappears in two weeks, but he maintained some of these behaviors, so cyproterone acetate is prescribed to control them, with improvement in one week. Three months after withdrawal of bupropion, he reaches euthymia and no longer presented any sexual behavioral alteration, coprolalia or copropraxia. The literature confirms other cases of appearance of tics in patients treated with antidepressants for a depressive picture and comorbidity with obsessive-compulsive disorder, but almost none by the use of bupropion or with coprolalia and copropraxia.