Choice of antidepressant based on the dexamethasone suppression test
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (6), 786-787
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.6.786
Abstract
This retrospective analysis of patients with major depressive disorder correlated response to the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) with clinical response to antidepressants. Nonsuppression on the DST predicted good response to noradrenergic drugs; suppression predicted good response to serotonergic drugs.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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