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Pain relief by antidepressants: possible modes of action
1Consultant Psychological Medicine, Eastman Dental Hospital, London WC1 U.K.
Pain
|September 1, 1985
Abstract:
There is evidence that both tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors can relieve chronic pain. There are a number of possible mechanisms for this phenomenon, recent studies suggest that this may be due to an analgesic rather than antidepressant effect.