Low dosage tricyclic antidepressants for depression

Meta-analysis of effects and side effects of low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression: systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects and side effects of low dosage tricyclic antidepressants with placebo and with standard dosage tricyclics in acute phase treatment of depression. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised trials comparing low dosage tricyclics (< or =100 mg/day) with placebo or with standard dosage tricyclics in adults with depression. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Relative risk of res...

Allergy, Depression and Tricyclic Antidepressants

INTRODUCTION Psychiatrists have been very reluctant to accept the idea that depressions, which they know so well, may be caused by allergies to common environmental molecules such as foods, airborne particles, and chemicals in water. When patients were depressed and anxious, and at the same time suffered from diseases accepted as allergic, psychosomatic explanations were used. This usually mean...

Tricyclic antidepressants.

Tricyclic antidepressants.

Correspondence BRiTISH 301 Tricyclic Antidepressants SIR,-I am worried by one sentence in the article on tricyclic antidepressants (13 April, p. 102): "Jaundice, which is very uncommon , is of the cholestatic type similar to that found in chlorpromazine." This is misleading. Jaundice is one of the more frequent side-effects reported from imipramine and imitrip-tyline, the most widely used membe...

Review: low dose was as effective as standard dose tricyclic antidepressants in adults with depression.