ESCITALOPRAM-5 MG

About ESCITALOPRAM-5 MG

Improves quality of life in family dementia caregivers

Among caregivers this small randomized controlled trial found that escitalopram use resulted in improvement in depression resilience burden and distress and quality of life

Lavretsky H Siddarth P Irwin MRAm J Geriatr Psychiatry 2010 Feb18215462

Improves quality of sleep in patients with panic disorders

Patients with panic disorder rate their sleep worse than healthy controls Treatment with escitalopram improved the subjective quality of sleep 

Todder D Baune BT Hum Psychopharmacol 2010 Mar25216773

Better than paroxetine in anxiety comorbid with depression

Patients with severe depression together with comorbid anxiety symptoms responded significantly better to treatment with escitalopram 20 mg compared with paroxetine 40 mg Contrary to paroxetine escitalopram maintained its efficacy with increasing baseline anxiety levels

Boulenger JP Hermes A Huusom AK Weiller ECurr Med Res Opin 2010 Mar26360514

Also indicated in 

 Social anxiety disorder

 Panic disorder

 Obsessivecompulsive disorder

 Huntingtons disease