A placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial comparing sertraline and imipramine for the treatment of dysthymia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 777-784

  Thase, Michael E ^a,i   Fava, Maurizio ^b   Halbreich, Uriel ^c   Kocsis, James H ^d   Koran, Lorrin ^e   Davidson, Jonathan ^f   Rosenbaum, Jerrold ^b   Harrison, Wilma ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^h PFIZER INC   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; IMIPRAMINE; PLACEBO; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 0029834638     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830090023004     Document Type: Article

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