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No benefit from flexible titration above minimum licensed dose in prescribing antidepressants for major depression: systematic review
(2019-12)
Background
In fixed‐dose antidepressant trials, the lower range of the licensed dose achieves the optimal balance between efficacy and tolerability. Whether flexible upward titration while side‐effects permit provides ...
Value of monitoring negative emotional bias in primary care in England for personalised antidepressant treatment: a modelling study
(2019-11)
Depressed patients often focus on negative life events. Effective antidepressant therapy reverses this negative emotional bias (NEB) within 1 week. Clinical therapeutic effect usually requires 4–6 weeks. The value of ...
Personalise antidepressant treatment for unipolar depression combining individual choices, risks and big data (PETRUSHKA): rationale and protocol
(2019-10)
Introduction: Matching treatment to specific patients is too often a matter of trial and error, while treatment efficacy should be optimised by limiting risks and costs and by incorporating patients’ preferences. Factors ...
Predicting Treatment Response to Antidepressant Medication Using Early Changes in Emotional Processing.
(2019-01)
Antidepressants must be taken for weeks before response can be assessed with many patients not responding to the first medication prescribed. This often results in long delays before effective treatment is started. ...
A single dose of fluoxetine reduces neural limbic responses to anger in depressed adolescents
(2019-01-21)
Depression in adolescence is frequently characterised by symptoms of irritability. Fluoxetine is the antidepressant with
the most favourable benefit:risk ratio profile to treat adolescent depression, but the neural ...
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants in the long-term treatment of major depression: protocol for a systematic review and networkmeta-analysis
(2019-05)
Introduction: Pharmacotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of major depression. At the initiation of antidepressant treatment, both improvement of symptoms in the short term and relapse prevention in the long ...
Side effect profile and comparative tolerability of 21 antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depression in adults: protocol for a network meta-analysis
(2019-05)
Introduction: We have recently compared all second-generation as well as selected first-generation antidepressants in terms of efficacy and acceptability in the acute treatment of major depression. Here we present a protocol ...
Trends in antidepressant prescriptions in children and young people in England, 1998–2017: protocol of a cohort study using linked primary care and secondary care datasets
(2019-06)
Introduction: Increasing numbers of children and young people (CYP) are receiving prescriptions for antidepressants. This is the protocol of a study aiming to describe the trends and variation in antidepressant prescriptions ...
One step closer to personalised prescribing of antidepressants: using real-world data together with patients and clinicians' preferences
(2019-07)
Antidepressants for many decades have been shown to be an effective treatment for depressive disorder.1 Approximately 80% of people with depressive disorder in the UK will have been prescribed an antidepressant within the ...