The efficacy of newer antidepressants in the treatment of chronic pain: A review of current literature

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 257-277

  Ansari, Arash ^a  

^a Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZATROPINE; CITALOPRAM; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SULPIRIDE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSESTHESIA; FIBROMYALGIA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

EID: 0033957555     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/hrp.7.5.257     Document Type: Review

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