Comparative Effects of Seven Antidepressant Regimes on Appetite, Weight and Carbohydrate Preference
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 148 (5), 590-592
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.148.5.590
Abstract
Appetite, weight, and preference for carbohydrate-containing food were followed in patients treated in double-blind trials of seven antidepressant regimes. Trimipramine and isocarboxazid combined had a significant effect in increasing appetite, carbohydrate preference, and weight; in patients who had lost appetite at presentation and were on this treatment, improvement in Hamilton score was linked to increase in weight.sbd.a finding not true of the other treatments.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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