Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Amitriptyline and Placebo

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 259-266

  Davidson, Jonathan ^a   Kudler, Harold ^a   Smith, Rebecca ^a   Mahorney, Steven L ^a   Lipper, Steven ^a   Hammett, Elliott ^a   Saunders, William B ^a   Cavenar, Jesse O ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AMBULATORY CARE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANIC; PLACEBOS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; WAR;

EID: 0025215353     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810150059010     Document Type: Article

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