Effects of tryptophan depletion in drug-free depressed patients who responded to total sleep deprivation

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-172

  Neumeister, Alexander ^a   Praschak Rieder, Nicole ^a   Heßelmann, Barbara ^a   Vitouch, Oliver ^a   Rauh, Manfred ^b   Barocka, Arnd ^b   Tauscher, Johannes ^a   Kasper, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID MIXTURE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAPSE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0031909083     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.2.167     Document Type: Article

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