Usefulness of serotoninergic challenge with oral citalopram

OBJECTIVE: Challenge tests designed to evaluate serotoninergic pathways have widely used intravenous citalopram. Oral citalopram has also been used, but unsatisfactory results were obtained with a dose of 20 mg. The objective of this study was to determine whether a higher oral dose would reproduce...

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Main Authors: Paulo Mattos, Vanessa A Franco, François Noel, Daniel Segenreich, José Carlos Gonçalves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2006-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462006000300011&tlng=en