Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder
Biological PsychiatryPublished 16 September 2003
Eric Vermetten, Meena Vythilingam, Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S. Charney, J. Douglas Bremner
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It is suggested that long-term treatment with paroxetine is associated with improvement of verbal declarative memory deficits and an increase in hippocampal volume in PTSD.
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These findings suggest that long-term treatment with paroxetine is associated with improvement of verbal declarative memory deficits and an increase in hippocampal volume in PTSD.
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