The British Journal of Psychiatry 147: 306-309 (1985)
© 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
A double-blind out-patient trial of indalpine vs mianserin
GJ Naylor and B Martin
Indalpine 150 mg per day and mianserin 60 mg per day were compared in a
double-blind study of 65 depressed out-patients: 52 patients completed the
4-week trial. At the end of four weeks there was no significant difference
in antidepressant effect between the two drugs; but in the first two weeks,
improvement in the mianserin-treated group was significantly greater than
that in the indalpine group. The mianserin- treated group reported more
side-effects of sedation (eg. drowsiness, clumsiness, heaviness of limbs
etc.) and one patient on indalpine developed a mild leucopenia.