The patients with schizophrenia and the patients with depression presented similar deficits in various expressive modalities: posed and spontaneous emotional expression, smiling, coverbal gestures, and verbal output.
The results suggest that (1) changes in thyroid function are related to clinical recovery rather than to a direct effect of the antidepressant drug and (2) patients with the lowest pretreatment evening thyrotropin secretion have the lowest rate of antidepressant response, and this may contribute to treatment resistance.
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