Paroxetine: An update of its pharmacology and therapeutic use in depression and a review of its use in other disorders

Drugs

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-120

  Gunasekara, Nishan S ^a   Noble, Stuart ^a   Benfield, Paul ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BENZATROPINE; CIMETIDINE; DESIPRAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; NEFAZODONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PAROXETINE; PHENYTOIN; PIMOZIDE; PROCYCLIDINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ASTHENIA; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; EJACULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GERIATRIC CARE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONG TERM CARE; MANIA; NAUSEA; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; OBSESSION; PANIC; PHOBIA; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SWEATING; TREMOR; VERTIGO; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; NAUSEA; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0031984009     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199855010-00007     Document Type: Review

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