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Editor's Preface: Antidepressants of the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

R.G. Priest
R.G. Priest*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
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Existing antidepressants are unsatisfactory: they have limited efficacy, side-effects are a problem, and there is an appreciable degree of toxicity. However, nonpharmacological, psychological approaches to the treatment of depression also have their own drawbacks, so that the search for better antidepressant compounds continues.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue S6: Depression and Reversible Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors-New Perspectives , October 1989 , pp. 7 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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