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Drowsiness and Antidepressant Drugs in Mild Depressive Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David Wheatley
David Wheatley*
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Head of the General Practitioner Research Group, 325 Staines Road, Twickenham, Middlesex
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A sedative or tranquillizing effect may be important in the treatment of mild depressive illness not requiring admission to hospital or ECT (Wheatley, 1969), and Hare et al. (1962, 1964) have suggested that antidepressant drugs may exert their effect by virtue of their sedative action. Other workers also have found similar effects from antidepressant drugs and tranquillizers (Overall et al., 1964; Paykel, 1969).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 558 , May 1972 , pp. 517 - 519
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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