Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 721-729 , July 2009

Escitalopram in the Treatment of Adolescent Depression: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Multisite Trial

,Accepted 30 January 2009.

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 This study was supported by Forest Laboratories.The authors thank the SCT-MD-32 investigators for the contribution (Valerie Kaplan Arnold, Eric Bartky, Louise M. Beckett-Thurman, Grant B. Belnap, Deborah Bergen, Shashi Bhatia, Regina Bussing, Rajinder S. Dhillon, Graham Emslie, Anne C. Fedyszen, Robert L. Findling, Michael Greenbaum, C. Thomas Gualtieri, Sanjay Gupta, Paras Harshawat, Howard A. Hassman, Robert L. Hendren, Henry B. Kaplan, Arifulla Khan, Irving Kolin, James E. Lee, Robert B. Lehman, Alan J. Levine, Gregory M. Mattingly, Michael E. McManus, Janice L. Miller, William Rory Murphy, Kamalesh K Pai, Sanjeev Pathak, Theodore A. Petti, Rakesh Ranjan, Karl Rickels, Michael Rieser, Adelaide S. Robb, Norman E. Rosenthal, Russell Scheffer, Scott Daniel Segal, Franco Sicuro, Dwight V. Wolf, and Tony T Yang).

PII: S0890-8567(09)60109-X

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181a2b304

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 721-729 , July 2009

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