Effect of continuation treatment on residual symptoms in late-life depression: How well is "well"?

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 312-319

  Opdyke, Karen Stage ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a   Frank, Ellen ^a   Begley, Amy E ^a   Buysse, Daniel J ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Shear, M Katherine ^a   Mazumdar, Sati ^a   Kupfer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuation therapy; Late life depression; Residual symptoms

Indexed keywords

NORTRIPTYLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030440774     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1996)4:6<312::AID-DA7>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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