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  • Title: [Duration of antidepressive treatments].
    Author: Villeneuve A.
    Journal: Encephale; 1992 Sep; 18 Spec No 4():517-20. PubMed ID: 1308848.
    Abstract:
    In spite of the considerable amount of research undertaken in the field of biological psychiatry, there is currently no reliable guide allowing us to predict with accuracy the response of a patient to an antidepressant treatment. Moreover, owing to the heterogeneity of the spectrum of affective disorders, to the importance of eliminating the various factors involved in an apparent resistance to an antidepressant therapy, it seems aleatory, particularly for an individual patient, to foresee precisely the length of an antidepressant treatment, except may be in unipolar disorders. The quality of the physician-patient therapeutic relationship should never be neglected. The recent hypotheses pertaining to the etiopathogenesis of affective disorders, the advent of new psychotropic agents such as the specific serotonin uptake inhibitors, or other agents not acting through this mechanism and the MAOI, type A, as well as the utilization of corticosuppressor drugs, may pave the way to new therapeutic avenues that could, in the future, modify the prognosis and the duration of the treatment of the depressive affective disorders.
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