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| Titles |
1989 British Journal of Psychiatry Prozac |
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| Genre |
medicine |
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medicines (psychiatric) |
| Identifier |
bjp1989jan_may_supplement5 |
| Note |
Prozac turns depressed patients into out and about patients. Now is the time to start looking at depression from a different point of view. Prozac is a new antidepressant with efficacy equal to the standard tricyclics. As a specific inhibitor of presynaptic reuptake of serotonin it has virtually no effect on the reuptake of histamine, acetylcholine or noradrenaline. Therefore efficacy is achieved without the usual accompanying sedation so patients' psychomotor performance if normally maintained. Anitcholinergic side-effects [ilegible] frequent and severe than those [ilegible] drugs a few patients feel the [ilegible] abandon treatment. It is also reassuring to [ilegible] Prozac has minimal effect on the [ilegible]. [ilegible] the dangers following deliberate overdose are low. Just one 20mg capsule a day allows patients to resume and cope with their normal everyday activities while their depression in controlled. That's why depressed patients, prescribed Prozac, find themselves becoming [ilegible] patients. |
| Abstract |
Fluoxetine, Dista, An image of the legs and feet of multiple people walking close to one another; they are only pictured from the waist down. |
