February 6, 2013

The Sertraline vs Electrical Current Therapy for Treating Depression Clinical Study

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Abstract

In MDD, the combination of tDCS and sertraline increases the efficacy of each treatment. The efficacy and safety of tDCS and sertraline did not differ. TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01033084.

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Brunoni et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d90063f544bba627bedbc2 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamapsychiatry.32

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