Treatment of severe depression with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 182-189

  Schatzberg, Alan E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

antidepressants; depression; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; severe depression; tricyclic antidepressants

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOSULEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CLINICAL TRIALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030428987     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1996)4:4<182::AID-DA4>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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