Comparison of venlafaxine alone versus venlafaxine plus bright light therapy combination for severe major depressive disorder

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2015, Pages e645-e654

  Özdemir, Pinar Güzel ^a   Boysan, Murat ^a   Smolensky, Michael H ^b   Selvi, Yavuz ^c   Aydin, Adem ^d   Yilmaz, Ekrem ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NECMETTIN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENLAFAXINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRIGHT LIGHT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84932125132     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: 15552101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.14m09376     Document Type: Article

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