Venlafaxine for pathological crying after stroke [1]

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 731-732

  Smith, Amanda G ^b   Montealegre Orjuela, Mercedes ^b   Douglas, James E ^a   Jenkins, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; LEVODOPA; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PROTIRELIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; NURSING HOME; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; STROKE;

EID: 0038209812     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v64n0618a     Document Type: Letter

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