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Prolactin, amitriptyline, and recovery from depression

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Spontaneous prolactin patterns were determined at 15-min intervals over 5 h in 13 patients, who were suffering from melancholia, during illness and after treatment with amitriptyline. Plasma prolactin levels were significantly greater at most sampling points after patients had recovered than during their illnesses. One patient, who did not recover, showed the opposite trend.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 620 Camino de Salud NE, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Jonathan Lisansky & Robert Kellner

  2. Veterans Administration Medical Center, 87108, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Jonathan Lisansky & Maire T. Buckman

  3. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Bologna School of Medicine, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Giovanni A. Fava

  4. Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14215, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Giovanni A. Fava

  5. Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Maire T. Buckman & Glenn T. Peake

  6. Institute of Semeiotica Medica, University of Padua School of Medicine, I-35100, Padua, Italy

    Maurizio Fava

  7. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14214, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Maria Zielezny

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Lisansky, J., Fava, G.A., Buckman, M.T. et al. Prolactin, amitriptyline, and recovery from depression. Psychopharmacology 84, 331–335 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00555208

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