[Antidepressant drugs and anxiety (author's transl)].

As regards the most significant studies interesting the intricate relationship between antidepressant drugs and anxiety, the authors reconsider the usual links: 1) stimulating and anxiogenic effects, 2) sedative and anxiolytic effects. It appears that these effects can vary, linked together or not, and are as much dependent on the kind of antidepressant drugs as on the pathological state considered; however this last parameter seems to be predominant.