SOURCE: MedPage Today
DATE: October 15, 2009
EXCERPT: "All antidepressants may not be created equal when it comes to worsening of suicidal ideation during treatment, researchers found.Men taking nortriptyline (Aventyl, Pamelor) were 2.4 times more likely to have an increase in suicidal thoughts than were those taking escitalopram (Lexapro), Nader Perroud, MD, of King's College London, and colleagues reported online in BMC Medicine." more
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Perroud N, Uher R, Marusic A, Rietschel M, Mors O, Henigsberg N, Hauser J, Maier W, Souery D, Placentino A, Szczepankiewicz A, Jorgensen L, Strohmaier J, Zobel A, Giovannini C, Elkin A, Gunasinghe C, Gray J, Campbell D, Gupta B, Farmer AE, McGuffin P, Aitchison KJ. Suicidal ideation during treatment of depression with escitalopram and nortriptyline in genome-based therapeutic drugs for depression (GENDEP): a clinical trial. BMC Med. 2009 Oct 15;7:60. Free article
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