Does somatosensory amplification decrease with antidepressant treatment?

Psychosomatics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 340-344

  Sayar, Kemal ^a   Barsky, Arthur J ^b   Gulec, Huseyin ^b  

^a Inonu Caddesi   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS;

EID: 24044524674     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.46.4.340     Document Type: Article

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