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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2004

The effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications in depressive disorders.

Waguih William Ishak, Mark H Rapaport, Jennifer G Gotto

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Waguih William IshakDepartment of Psychiatry, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and University of California at Los Angeles, 8730 Alden Drive, Thalians C-301, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Mark H Rapaport
Jennifer G Gotto
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical evidence supporting the use of atypical antipsychotic medication (broad-spectrum psychotropic agents) in the treatment of depressive disorders is increasing rapidly. Animal models suggest that when atypical antipsychotic medications are used in combination with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor there is additional activation of frontal dopaminergic and noradrenergic neurotransmitter systems. This stimulated the initiation of several clinical trials that showed the efficacy of atypical antipsychotic medication augmentation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for patients with treatment-resistant depression. There also are few case reports of successful treatment of depression with atypical antipsychotic medication alone. When a clinician is treating a depressed patient who did not achieve relief after trials with two different antidepressant regimens, one option to consider is augmentation with an atypical antipsychotic medication to ameliorate depressive symptoms.

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Antipsychotic AgentsClinical Trials as TopicDepressive DisorderHumansSelective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsAntipsychotic AgentsSelective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

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PMID15538989
OpenAlexW2003058676

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