ABSTRACT
El suicidio e la tentativa de suicidio con entidades con caracteristicas epidemiologicas distintas. El autor hace una descrición de todod los factores que afecton a la diátesis como también el diagnóstic y tratamiento.
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Humans , Suicide , Suicide, Attempted/statistics & numerical data , Suicide, Attempted/ethnology , Suicide, Attempted/psychology , DopamineABSTRACT
Tianeptine (37.5 mg/day) and paroxetine (20 mg/day) were compared in a population of depressive patients without past or current history of co-morbid anxiety and/or important anxiolytic treatment. In a 6-week, double blind trial, the special focus was on anxious symptoms.Both drugs showed good efficacy on depressive symptomatology, assessed with MADRS and HDRS, but no difference was detected between tianeptine and paroxetine, for any assessment criterion. Despite the choice of selected depressive patients, without any co-morbid anxious disorder, anxiety scale scores at inclusion (HAMA and BAS) were appreciable but correlated poorly with depressive scores. Both tianeptine and paroxetine improved the apparent anxious component in depression. Tolerability of both drugs was good, although significantly better with tianeptine.Thus tianeptine and paroxetine are effective and safe treatments for major depression and may also act directly on the anxious component of the psychopathology. Copyright 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
