[Antidepressive agents in non-depressive disorders]

The evaluation of effect of psychotropic medications required clarification of operating diagnostic and of scales sensitive to change. In a second time, these allowed to demonstrate that some antidepressant agents act on pure obsessive-compulsive disorder and on pure panic disorder, i.e. without associated depression. These antidepressants below to different chemical families, but their common action is to act on two main synaptic transmissions: the noradrenergic and the serotoninergic paths.