Optimizing treatment for the elderly depressive: new antidepressants in the elderly

Abstract

This paper considers how to optimize the treatment of elderly depressed patients, in the particular context of the use of relatively new antidepressant drugs.

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antidepressants elderly patients optimum treatment

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