Treatment of depressive and negative symptoms in individuals with schizoaffective disorders using serotoninergic

Michel Sabé1, Federico Seragnoli1, Gabriel Thorens1

  • 1Division of Adult Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Thonex, Switzerland (Sabé, Sentissi, Kaiser, Kirschner); Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (Sabé, Thorens, Zullino, Sentissi, Kaiser, Kirschner); Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (Seragnoli, Thorens, Zullino); Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa (Solmi); Department of Mental Health, The Ottawa Hospital (Solmi); Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. (Solmi); Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany (Solmi); Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin; and Freie Universität Berlin; and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Böge); Berlin Institute of Health (Böge); German Center of Mental Health (DZPG), Berlin, Germany (Böge); Medical University Brandenburg - Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany (Böge).

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