Relationship between antidepressant partial and nonresponse and subsequent response to antidepressant augmentation

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 52, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 257-259

  Joffe, Russell T ^a   Levitt, Anthony J ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Augmentation; Clinical; Lithium; Triiodothyronine

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DESIPRAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0032897892     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(97)00178-X     Document Type: Article

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