Calcium-Channel Blockade and Depressive Illness
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 156 (6) , 889-891
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.156.6.889
Abstract
A case of depressive disorder in which treatment resistance was associated with the calcium-channel blocker nifedipine is described.Keywords
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