Prolactin, cortisol, and antidepressant treatment.

Am J Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Buffalo School of Medicine.

Published: March 1988

In four depressed patients with abnormal dexamethasone suppression test results before treatment, plasma prolactin levels significantly increased after successful amitriptyline therapy. Such an increase did not take place in five depressed patients with normal dexamethasone suppression test findings.

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