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KMID : 0607520070150010007
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Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
2007 Volume.15 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.13
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Antidepressants in the Psychosomatic Disorders
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Seo Jeong-Seok
Moon Seok-Woo
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Abstract
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Antidepressants are used by substantial number of physicians as well as psychiatrists. Antidepressants are the mainstay of treatment of depression combined with physical illness, neuropathic pain, and various psychosomatic disorders. Antidepressants, especially TCA and SSRI, are superior to placebo in treating comorbid depression and pain of physical illness. Although it has been controversial whether the influence of depression on the risk and outcome of physical illness is true, antidepressants would provide more favorable prognosis and better quality of life for the patients with physical illness.
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KEYWORD
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Physical illness, Depression, Antidepressant, Pain
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