Increased positive versus negative affective perception and memory in healthy volunteers following selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1256-1263

  Harmer, Catherine J ^a   Shelley, Nicholas C ^a   Cowen, Philip J ^a   Goodwin, Guy M ^a  

^a WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; REBOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CAPSULE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STARTLE REFLEX; THEORY;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CITALOPRAM; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MORPHOLINES; PLACEBOS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STARTLE REACTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042739104     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.7.1256     Document Type: Article

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