Treatment of poststroke generalized anxiety disorder comorbid with poststroke depression: Merged analysis of nortriptyline trials

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 320-327

  Kimura, Mahito ^a,b   Tateno, Amane ^a,b   Robinson, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORTRIPTYLINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STROKE;

EID: 0037406447     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200305000-00009     Document Type: Article

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