Drowsiness and Antidepressant Drugs in Mild Depressive Illness
- 1 May 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 120 (558) , 517-519
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.120.558.517
Abstract
A sedative or tranquillizing effect may be important in the treatment of mild depressive illness not requiring admission to hospital or ECT (Wheatley, 1969), and Hare et al. (1962, 1964) have suggested that antidepressant drugs may exert their effect by virtue of their sedative action. Other workers also have found similar effects from antidepressant drugs and tranquillizers (Overall et al., 1964; Paykel, 1969).Keywords
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