CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MOOD DISORDERS - EXPERIENCE WITH SEROTONIN-BASEDTHERAPIES

By most measures, child and adolescent depression is much like and con tinuous with adult depression. Aggregating all available data, much of which is relatively new it seems most likely that noradrenergic and m ixed serotonergic/noradrenergic tricyclic antidepressants are ineffect ive in child and adolescent depression, whereas serotonergic antidepre ssants (e.g., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are probably ef fective. (C) 1998 Society of Biological Psychiatry.