Biological perspectives: Mechanisms and treatments of SSRI-Induced sexual dysfunction

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 111-116

  Keltner, Norman L ^a   McAfee, Kelly M ^b   Taylor, Carey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sexual dysfunction; SSRIs

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMANTADINE; AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; APHRODYNE; BUSPIRONE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CYPROHEPTADINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GRANISETRON; METHYLPHENIDATE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PAROXETINE; PEMOLINE; PEMOLINE MAGNESIUM; SEROTONIN 2 ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SILDENAFIL; UNINDEXED DRUG; YOHIMBINE;

AROUSAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DENDRITE; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EJACULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LIBIDO; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; ORGASM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENIS ERECTION; PROLACTIN SYNTHESIS; RAPHE NUCLEUS; REVIEW; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPINE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG COMBINATION;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036660720     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2002.tb00665.x     Document Type: Review

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