Psychiatric News (10/10) reports, “Whether patients with major depressive disorder [MDD] show improvement (or lack thereof) at the end of their second week on an antidepressant medication may predict whether they will ultimately achieve remission at the end of 12 weeks,” researchers concluded after conducting “a secondary analysis of data from the Veterans Affairs Augmentation and Switching Treatments for Improving Depression Outcomes…study, which involved 1,552 veterans aged 18 and older whose” MDD “was unresponsive to at least one course of antidepressant treatment.” The findings were published online Oct. 3 in the journal Psychiatric Research & Clinical Practice, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “Changes in Depressive Symptoms at Two-Week Treatment Mark May Predict 12-Week Remission Outcomes, Psychiatric News, October 10, 2019