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Antidepressants may make people less neuroticReuters CHICAGO -- Antidepressants may go well beyond just easing the symptoms of depression; they may also make people less neurotic, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
December 9, 2009, 10:53 am TWN The study of people who took GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, known generically as paroxetine, suggests the drug may treat factors such as neuroticism that make a person more likely to be depressed in the first place. “Our data suggests that modern antidepressants work partly by correcting key personality risk factors of depression,” Tony Tang, a psychology professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose study appears in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.
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