Trimipramine: A challenge to current concepts on antidepressives

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 246, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 235-239

  Berger, M ^a   Gastpar, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Klin F Allgemeine Psychiatrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Dopamine receptors; Primary insomnia; Schizophrenia; Trimipramine

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DRUG RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PROLACTIN; SEROTONIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE;

DEPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TRIMIPRAMINE;

EID: 0030012389     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02190274     Document Type: Review

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