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Review: Anti‐inflammatory treatment improves symptoms of depression
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30020
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , celecoxib , medicine , nonsteroidal , adverse effect , citation , psychiatry , library science , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
Anti‐inflammatory medications used alone or as adjunctive therapy to treat depression or depressive symptoms resulted in symptom improvement without increasing the risk of adverse effects, a new meta‐analysis has found. Results were particularly strong for the nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug (NSAID) celecoxib.