Posted by ed_uk2010 on May 24, 2010, at 14:58:45
In reply to Re: Immipramine Causes Natural Endorphins to Drop » ed_uk2010, posted by linkadge on May 23, 2010, at 20:44:58
>They should have compared these patients to.............those on medications with other mechanisms, and depressed controls not on medication.
Excellent point. The study certainly suggests that SSRIs affect sex hormones, but it doesn't prove anything. Would be interesting to compare levels of prolactin, LH and testosterone in unmedicated depressed men versus unmedicated non-depressed men. Annoyingly, because depression is such a 'broad' diagnosis, this type of study often doesn't come up with anything useful.
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