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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 ...
Cognitive neuropsychological theory of antidepressant action: a modern-day approach to depression and its treatment
(2020-01)
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and improving its treatment is a core research priority for future programmes. A change in the view of psychological and biological processes, from seeing them as ...
A Dissociation of the Acute Effects of Bupropion on Positive Emotional Processing and Reward Processing in Healthy Volunteers
(2018-10)
Background: Previous research indicates that antidepressants can restore the balance between negative and positive emotional processing early in treatment, indicating a role of this effect in later mood improvement. However, ...
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 ...
A continuum hypothesis of psychotomimetic rapid antidepressants
(2021-05)
Ketamine, classical psychedelics and sleep deprivation are associated with rapid effects on depression. Interestingly, these interventions also have common psychotomimetic actions, mirroring aspects of psychosis such as ...
An Experimental Medicine Investigation of the Effects of Subacute Pramipexole Treatment on Emotional Information Processing in Healthy Volunteers
(2021-08)
Treatment with the dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist pramipexole has demonstrated
promising clinical effects in patients with depression. However, the mechanisms through which
pramipexole might alleviate depressive symptoms ...
An Experimental Medicine Investigation of the Effects of Subacute Pramipexole Treatment on Emotional Information Processing in Healthy Volunteers
(2021-08)
Treatment with the dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist pramipexole has demonstrated
promising clinical effects in patients with depression. However, the mechanisms through which
pramipexole might alleviate depressive symptoms ...
Statins for major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(2021-03)
The burden of depressive disorder is large and new treatment approaches are required. Repurposing widely available drugs such as statins may be a time- and cost-effective solution. Statins have anti-inflammatory and ...
No antidepressant-like acute effects of bright light on emotional information processing in healthy volunteers
(2021-11)
Rationale: Bright light treatment (BLT) is an efficacious antidepressant intervention, but its mechanism of action is not well understood. Antidepressant drugs acutely affect how emotional information is processed, pushing ...