Antidepressants therapy and risk of suicide among patients with major depressive disorders / Maurizio Pompili ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pompili, Maurizio.

Series:

Psychiatry- theory, applications, and treatments series.

Pharmacology-research, safety testing, and regulation series.

Psychiatry - Theory, Applications and Treatments

Pharmacology - Research, Safety Testing and Regulation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Risk factors.

Suicide.

Suicidal behavior--Etiology.

Suicidal behavior.

Antidepressants--Side effects.

Antidepressants.

Depression, Mental--Treatment--Complications.

Depression, Mental.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Biomedical, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most cases of suicide (81 per cent-95 per cent) in the general population involve psychiatric illnesses, nearly half of which (48.5 per cent) are mood disorders. This book reviews whether the use of antidepressants is associated with benefits in terms of completed or attempted suicide.

Contents:

Introduction : the complex challenge of suicide

Antidepressants and suicidal risk

The relationship between antidepressants and suicide as reported in ecological studies

The relationship between antidepressants and suicide as reported in cohort and case-control studies

The relationship between antidepressants and suicide as reported in randomized controlled trials (RCTS)

The relationship between antidepressants and suicide in different countries

Possible explanations for the lack of effect on suicidal risk during antidepressant treatment and clinical implications

Adverse effect of antidepressants and suicide mortality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 12, 2013).

ISBN:

1-61122-388-1

OCLC:

1162039364