Bright light for nonseasonal depression?
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Bright light for nonseasonal depression?
A 58-year-old man’s condition was stable on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) after 3 major depressive episodes in 10 years. He disliked the idea of taking a drug for a long time and at one point took himself off the SSRI and started taking St. John’s wort. However, the reappearance of symptoms of depression soon led him to go back on the SSRI. As discussed in previous columns, on...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1180-4882
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.110056