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Depressive Classification and Prediction of Response to Phenelzine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. S. Paykel ,
R. R. Parker ,
R. J. J. Penrose  and
E. R. Rassaby
E. S. Paykel
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17
R. R. Parker
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Formerly Research Fellow, St George's Hospital Medical School
R. J. J. Penrose
Affiliation:
West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
E. R. Rassaby
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School
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Summary

A variety of depressive classifications were used to predict response to four weeks' treatment with phenelzine. Better response was found in outpatients rather than inpatients, in atypical depressives, in less severe depressives with a pattern of anxiety and other neurotic symptoms, and in groups characterized as hostile and agitated. The findings, although a little patchy, gave clear support to the concept of a specific clinical group responsive to MAO inhibitors.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 134 , Issue 6 , June 1979 , pp. 572 - 581
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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