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The pharmacotherapy of depression with EPA

This lecture considers the pharmacotherapy of depression with EPA under the following headings:

  • Epidemiological evidence

  • Biochemical evidence

  • First trial of pure EPA in severe treatment-resistant depression

  • Subsequent randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials

  • Putative mechanisms.

Results obtained from our own group, including structural neuroimaging and 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy findings, showing an association of EPA treatment of depression with a marked decrease in cerebral phosphodiesters, a marked increase in cerebral phosphomonoesters and reduced lateral ventricular volume, will also be presented.

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Puri, B.K. The pharmacotherapy of depression with EPA. Ann Gen Psychiatry 9 (Suppl 1), S23 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-S1-S23

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