Search for: [Abstract = "confirms possibility of using zinc in the clinical therapy. It seems to be especially important in the therapy of treatment\- resistant depression, in which zinc may augment antidepressants' effect, inefficient in monotherapy. Moreover, there are many subpopulations with a variety of psychopathological and biochemical features among people suff ering from depression. One of them seems to be depression with lowered serum zinc level. In those patients zinc supplementation may be crucial for therapy efficacy enhancement. In the context of the available data which indicates that almost half of the world human population are not receiving an adequate amount of zinc and increasing prevalence of depression, the determination of mechanisms of antidepressant zinc action becomes really important to reduce this illness expansion."]
