The sequenced treatment alternatives to relieve depression studies: How applicable are the results for older adults?

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 33-36

  Kennedy, Gary J ^a,b,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Geriatric Psychiatry MMC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMFEBUTAMONE; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; ESKALITH CR; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MIRTAZAPINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORTRIPTYLINE; PENICILLIN G; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; VENLAFAXINE; WELLBUTRIN XR;

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; AMNESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HAMILTON SCALE; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PROSTATE DISEASE; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; TREMOR; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 33845266161     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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