Traumatic stress, dissociation, and limbic irritability in patients with unipolar depression being treated with SSRIs

Abstract

The present study investigates whether the increased presence of the seizure-like symptoms in unipolar depressive patients treated with SSRIs is associated with significantly more severe symptoms of depression, traumatic stress and dissociation in comparison with healthy controls.

Keywords

• traumatic stress
• dissociation
• limbic irritability
• neurosciences
• psychiatry