title: [Role and importance of antidepressants in general medicine. Bibliographic review and case contribution].
abstract: Starting from the consideration that communications relating to antidepressant drugs are chiefly reported by psychiatrists and that such reports deal with cases that we don't find in general practice, or at least marginally, the authors go on considering again their material consisting of 944 patients treated with antidepressants alone or associated with tranquilizers and/or with neuroplegic sedatives, hoping to gather usefull informations for a better definition of the role of these drugs in this large nosographic area. The authors could, therefore, by that way: confirm the high incidence of psychosomatic disorders among all the professional areas concerned with general practice; confirm the clear prevalence of the less symptomatic forms; verify in a high percentage of cases the coexistence of an organic disorder in way of progress or in outcome; confirm the double role of these drugs, diagnostic (ex-juvantibus) and therapeutical; suggest a third role of nosographic nature.
mesh_terms: D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008376:Maprotiline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013469:Sulpiride / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014196:Trazodone / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors; D008376:Maprotiline; D013469:Sulpiride; D014196:Trazodone
vernacular_title: Ruolo ed importanza degli antidepressivi in medicina generale. Riferimenti bibliografici e contributo casistico.