In the pharmacological treatment of depressive disorders there is made a distinction between the long-term treatment with antidepressants , which aims at achieving a lasting stabilization of the emotional state, and the acute or emergency treatment, for example with neuroleptic drugs, which aims at a rapid stabilization.
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