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A Single Dose of Oral Escitalopram Decreases Resting-state Functional Connectivity

Clinical care for major depressive disorder (MDD) would be greatly improved if we had reliable clinical predictors of individual antidepressant treatment outcome. While, at the present time, no biomarkers have sufficiently proven utility to be ready for clinical application, several neuroimaging modalities have shown promise for such development. Attempts to combine the recently developed modality of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) with pharmacological challenges to explore the impact of antidepressants on resting-state brain connectivity have just begun (McCabe et al., 2011a, McCabe et al., 2011b). The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of a single dose of the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) escitalopram on resting-state functional connectivity in health.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:13379
Date15 January 2015
CreatorsBurmann, Inga
ContributorsVillringer, Arno, Neumann, Jane, Hesse, Swen, Universität Leipzig
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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