Do antidepressants change personality? - A five-year observational study

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 142, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 200-207

  Jylhä, Pekka ^a,b   Ketokivi, Mikko ^d   Mantere, Outi ^a,b   Melartin, Tarja ^a,b   Holma, Mikael ^a   Rytsälä, Heikki ^a   Isometsä, Erkki ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Covariation; Extraversion; Major depressive disorder; Neuroticism; Personality

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868146407     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.04.026     Document Type: Article

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