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Trial reportEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2006

Acute treatment with the antidepressants bupropion and sertraline do not influence memory retrieval in man.

André F Carvalho, Cristiano A Köhler, Eduardo P Cruz, Pablo L Stürmer, Bruno P Reichman, Bianca M Barea, Iván Izquierdo, Márcia L F Chaves

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Trial report in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

André F CarvalhoCentro de Memória, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. andrefc7@terra.com.br
Cristiano A Köhler
Eduardo P Cruz
Pablo L Stürmer
Bruno P Reichman
Bianca M Barea
Iván Izquierdo
Márcia L F Chaves
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre · BRPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveSeveral evidences implicate that monoamines play a modulatory role in the brain mechanisms underlying encoding and retrieval of emotional memories. Recent experiments demonstrate that acute monoaminergic potentiation with the antidepressants bupropion or sertraline enhance the retrieval of longterm emotional memory in rodents. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that acute monoaminergic re-uptake inhibition with these antidepressants might enhance retrieval of emotional memory in man.

methodsThe central monoaminergic system was stimulated with either bupropion or sertraline in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled design with 105 healthy adult subjects divided in three groups (placebo, 150 mg-bupropion and 50 mg-sertraline). Memory was evaluated with a 'surprise' memory test 7 days after the presentation of an emotional story and with a word-cued autobiographical memory test.

resultsA total of 99 volunteers completed the experimental procedures. Contrasting to our prediction, we found no memory enhancing effect for either drug in both memory tests. All groups showed the expected heightened memory performance to the middle 'emotive' phase of the story.

conclusionStimulation of the central monoaminergic system with the antidepressants bupropion and sertraline did not enhance the retrieval of long-term emotional memories in man.

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AdolescentAdultAntidepressive AgentsBupropionDose-Response Relationship, DrugDouble-Blind MethodEmotionsFemaleHumansMaleMental RecallNeuropsychological TestsPersonality InventorySertralineTime FactorsAntidepressive AgentsBupropionSertraline

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PMID16683061
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