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Nature Medicine 10, 228 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0304-228

The Prozac pipeline

Herbert Y Meltzer1

  1. Herbert Y. Meltzer is at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashiville, Tennessee 37212, USA. e-mail: herbert.meltzer@vanderbilt.edu

Those who have read about the side effects and limitations of psychotropic drugs in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in the last year are likely to respond to this excellent popular account with a sigh of relief. The message of this new book on psychopharmacology is that drugs better than Prozac and other psychotropic drugs—the mainstay of psychiatric treatment in the last 50 years—are on the horizon.