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Drug combination in maternal depression not more effective for children
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.30042
Subject(s) - escitalopram , depression (economics) , medicine , bupropion , drug , psychiatry , citation , psychopharmacology , psychology , anxiety , library science , computer science , antidepressant , economics , pathology , smoking cessation , macroeconomics
In results contrary to researchers' hypothesis that a drug combination treatment for maternal depression would have a more beneficial effect on the mothers' children than either treatment alone, a new study has found that escitalopram treatment was more effective than bupropion or a combination of the two. The 12‐week study of 76 mothers found that the escitalopram group was the only group in which significant improvement in the mothers' symptoms was associated with improvement in their children.