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A 56 year-old female patient with major depressive disorder, single episode with unremarkable findings on past medical and psychiatric history visited due to various depressive symptoms. Mirtazapine of 15 mg/day...
Several decades of research attempting to explain schizophrenia regarding dopamine hyperactivity hypothesis have produced disappointing results. New hypotheses focusing on serotonin-dopamine interactions and hypofunction of the NMDA glutamate transmitter system...
Some novel antiepileptic drugs including lamotrigine and so on appear to have mood-stabilizing properties. Lamotrigine has the promising effets in terms of its efficacy in the treatment of bipolar depression....
Although serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) are the primary therapeutic drugs for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), as many as 40% (up to 60%) of OCD patients do not show an adequate...
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to measure and compare the c-fos mRNA expression patterns in the nucleus accumbens (NAS) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) of rats after the administration...
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the 5-HT receptors in acetylcholine (ACh) release from the striatum. Slices from the rat striatum and synaptosomes were incubated...
OBJECTIVE: There have been many studies to show the close relationship between anxiety and beta-adrenergic receptor function in patients with anxiety disorder. This study examined the relationship between anxiety levels...
Recently Korean Food and Drug Administration approved Hypericum perforatum preparations (St. John's wort) as an over-the-counter drug. The authors reported a case of Hypericum perforatum induced mania in a patient...