Open AccessRole of antioxidants in generalised anxiety disorder and depression
Author(s) -
Medhavi Gautam,
Mukta Agrawal,
Manaswi Gautam,
Praveen Sharma,
Anita Gautam,
Shiv Gautam
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.102424
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , ascorbic acid , medicine , vitamin c , vitamin , inclusion and exclusion criteria , psychiatry , physiology , alternative medicine , biology , food science , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Anxiety and depression form commonest stress-induced psychiatric disorders. To combat the biochemical changes which occur as a result of stress, there is antioxidant defence in the biological system. Secondary defence is by the nonenzymatic antioxidants like vitamins E (alphatocopherol), C (ascorbic acid), and β-carotene. Therefore, the authors interest was aroused to examine the status of these antioxidants in the biological system of patients suffering from stress-induced psychiatric disorders.