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. 2019 Oct:97:122-125.
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.01.025. Epub 2019 Jan 23.

The war on antidepressants: What we can, and can't conclude, from the systematic review of antidepressant withdrawal effects by Davies and Read

Sameer Jauhar  1 , Joseph Hayes  2
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The war on antidepressants: What we can, and can't conclude, from the systematic review of antidepressant withdrawal effects by Davies and Read

Sameer Jauhar et al. Addict Behav. 2019 Oct.

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Conflict of interest

Joseph F Hayes has received funding from the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research, Forte (the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare), and the Medical Research Council. He is a member of the International Group for the Study of Lithium Treated Patients. He has never received drug company funding. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist. He prescribes antidepressant medication.

Sameer Jauhar is funded by the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust and King's College London, and by a JMAS Sim Fellowship form the Royal College of physicians, Edinburgh. He has not received drug company funding. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist and prescribes antidepressant medication.

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Fig. 1. Occurrence of withdrawal symptoms by antidepressant and study design.
*studies excluded by Davies and Read.
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