MAO INHIBITION AND DEPRESSION-DUNLOP ET AL

SUMMARY

Intravenous modaline sulfate was evaluatedin six hospitalized depressed patients over athree-week course of therapy. The results ob­tained are consistent with the hypothesis thatthe degree of MAO inhibition is related toclinical improvement of depression. Therewere no significant side effects noted and noevidence of systemic toxicity due to modalinesulfate therapy. Data presented are prelimi­nary in nature and should be interpreted ac­cordingly.

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(Doctor Dunlop)Fuller Memorial SanitariumAttleboro, Massachusetts

"The average practitioner is quite capable of handling the vast majority of ex-institutionalizedpatients by regulation of medication, reassurance, manipulation of the environment wherenecessary, and ... other technics."

-N. S. KLINE, Postgrad. Med.,27:620, May, 1960.

ERRATUMIn the Editorial of the November-December 1964 issue the editor noted that "Psychoso­

matics has now completed its fourth year." This is an understatement of the true facts; sincepublication was commenced in January, 1960; it is therefore corrected to "its fifth year.' Theeditor cannot and will not seek refuge in the possibility of an error that can be traced to hisassistant, nor to the publisher. The best explanation is either that 1960-1964 is a span of fouryears, or hopefully that it is a significant slip indicating his continued interest in the journaland the fact that another year or less is not too significant. WD

January-February, 1965.,.•