Pharmacologic treatment of dimensional anxious depression: a review.

ABSTRACT: To review the pharmacologic treatment of dimensionally defined anxious depression. English-language, adult human research articles published between 1949 and February 2013 were identified via PUBMED and EMBASE. The search term was treatment of anxious depression. We identified and reviewed 304 original articles. Of these, 31 studies of patients with anxious depression, who were treated with an antidepressant or antipsychotic, are included in this review. All studies explicitly used a dimensional definition of anxious depression. All patients were treated with either antidepressants or antipsychotic medications. Of the 31 relevant psychopharmacologic studies identified, 7 examined patients receiving only 1 medication, 2 studied cotherapeutic strategies, 1 examined antipsychotic augmentation

SUBMITTER: Ionescu DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4195641 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature