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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Functional Classification and Response to Psychotropic Drugs
O. Benkertsubject
Research designDrugmedicine.medical_specialtyGeneralized anxiety disorderbusiness.industryPanic disordermedia_common.quotation_subjectmedicine.diseasePsychotropic drugEndogenous depressionMedicinemedicine.symptombusinessMajor depressive episodePsychiatryAnxiety disordermedia_commondescription
Psychopathologically defined diagnoses represent guidelines for the application of drugs and serve as selection criteria for the evaluation of potentially useful psychopharmacological agents. Therefore, the success of research in drug evaluation strongly depends on the conceptual frameworks of diagnostic classification and how these change. For instance, at the beginning of the era of antidepressants 30 years ago, the efficacy of antidepressants was thought to be restricted to patients with endogenous depression, but since then their therapeutic spectrum has broadened: first to the “depressive syndrome” and then, due to the growing acceptance of DSM-III, to the major depressive episode. Now, even further indications for antidepressants, especially for panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, have been suggested.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-01-01 |