Open AccessAccelerated antidepressant response to lithium augmentation of imipramine
Author(s) -
Radha Saini,
Mary Raju,
Suprakash Chaudhury,
Kalpana Srivastava
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.196057
Subject(s) - imipramine , lithium (medication) , antidepressant , tricyclic antidepressant , placebo , tricyclic , depression (economics) , medicine , anesthesia , pharmacology , hippocampus , alternative medicine , macroeconomics , pathology , economics
Treatment of depressive episode often poses a challenge. Although there are numerous medicines available for its treatment but they all have a lag period of 2-3 weeks before they start showing their result.