An open clinical trial of fluvoxamine treatment of psychogenic excoriation

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-18

  Arnold, Lesley M ^a   Mutasim, Diya F ^a   Dwight, Megan M ^a   Lamerson, Cindy L ^a   Morris, Emily M ^a   Mcelroy, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; FLUVOXAMINE; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; NAUSEA; OBSESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; FEMALE; FLUVOXAMINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032908251     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004714-199902000-00005     Document Type: Article

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