Efficacy and tolerability of antidepressant therapy in the old-old

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 5, 1996, Pages 23-28

  Finkel, Sanford I ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DOSULEPIN; FLUOXETINE; MIANSERIN; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CLINICAL TRIALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029945137     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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