Treatment of depression following traumatic brain injury

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 544-562

  Alderfer, Benjamin S ^a,b,c   Arciniegas, David B ^a,b   Silver, Jonathan M ^d  

^a HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Desert Pacific Healthcare Network   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Depression; Drug interactions; Electroconvulsive therapy; Monoamine oxidase inhibitors; Seizures; Serotonin uptake inhibitors; Traumatic brain injury; Tricyclic antidepressive agents

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MILNACIPRAN; MIRTAZAPINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

AGGRESSION; ANOREXIA; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAMILTON SCALE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; IRRITABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RATING SCALE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URINE RETENTION; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 28044472982     PISSN: 08859701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001199-200511000-00006     Document Type: Review

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