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Does Viloxazine Really Improve Sex Drive? A Double-Blind Controlled Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Diego De Leo  and
Guido Magni
Diego De Leo*
Affiliation:
Universita degli Studi di Padova Istituto di Clinica Psichiatrica, 35128 Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, Italy
Guido Magni
Affiliation:
Universita degli Studi di Padova Istituto di Clinica Psichiatrica, 35128 Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, Italy
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The action of viloxazine on libido and sex drive was evaluated with a randomised controlled double-blind trial against placebo on a population of 26 male out-patients affected by primary depression (DSM III). Modifications in the sexual sphere were assessed by the ad hoc inclusion of a series of items in the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. Thus modified, the scale was administered at the beginning and the end of a four-week trial period. Viloxazine proved to have a considerable disinhibiting effect, whose principal expression level was a return to pre-depression levels of frequency in sexual relations.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 597 - 599
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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