Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Pharmacologic Treatment of Dimensional Anxious Depression

Dawn F. Ionescu, Mark J. Niciu, Erica M. Richards, Carlos A. Zarate

The authors reviewed 31 studies (from a search of 304 articles published 1949–Feb 2013) of adults with depression plus measured anxiety. They report that SSRIs, SNRIs, and TCAs often reduce symptoms in this “anxious depression” group, but these patients are less likely to keep their improvement or reach lasting remission…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Treatment of Major Depression
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