Low serotonergic function and its normalization by treatment with sertraline in obsessive-compulsive disorder-an auditory evoked potential study

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Mavorgiorgou, Paraskevi ^a,b   Gohle, Doris ^a   Winter, Christine ^c   Rujescu, Dan ^a   Pogarell, Oliver ^a   Mulert, Christoph ^a   Bär, Karl Jürgen ^b   Zaudig, Michael ^d   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a,e   Juckel, Georg ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Psychosomatic Hospital   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTRODE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LOUDNESS; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEROTONIN; SERTRALINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952411499     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JCP.0b013e3181db354f     Document Type: Letter

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