Drug treatment of depression: Reflections on the evidence

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Anderson, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM; LORMETAZEPAM; MAPROTILINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NOMIFENSINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OLANZAPINE; OXAPROTILINE; PAROXETINE; PINDOLOL; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; THIORIDAZINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

EID: 0037236947     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.9.1.11     Document Type: Review

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