Lack of advantage for imipramine combined with lithium versus imipramine alone in the treatment of major depression - A double-blind controlled study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1181-1183

  Shahal, Baruch ^a   Piel, Edon ^a   Mecz, Lily ^a   Kremer, Iiana ^a   Klein, Ehud ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

imipramine; lithium; major depression; resistant depression

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030560879     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00307-1     Document Type: Article

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