Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction: A Potentially Avoidable Therapeutic Challenge

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-61

  Clayton, Anita H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMINEPTINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDOTE; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SILDENAFIL; TRAZODONE; VENLAFAXINE; YOHIMBINE;

DEPRESSION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; ORGASM DISORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

EID: 1842609723     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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