Eye-blink rates and depression. Is the antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation mediated by the dopamine system?

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 332-339

  Ebert, Dieter ^a   Albert, Roland ^b   Hammon, Gerhard ^b   Strasser, Bernhard ^b   May, Albrecht ^b   Merz, Antje ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bromocriptine; Depression; Dopamine; Eye blink rate; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0030272363     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0893-133X(95)00237-8     Document Type: Article

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