Browsing Depressive Disorders by Subject "Antidepressant Drugs"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Pramipexole for the Treatment of Depression: Efficacy and Mechanisms
(2023-11)Dopaminergic mechanisms are a plausible treatment target for patients with clinical depression but are relatively underexplored in conventional antidepressant medications. There is continuing interest in the potential ... -
Predicting Antidepressant Treatment Response Using Functional Brain Controllability Analysis
(2023-03)Introduction: For decades, predicting response to the antidepressant medication has been a critical unmet need in depression treatment in clinic, and a technical challenge in depression research. Methods: In this study, ... -
Predicting treatment effects in unipolar depression: A meta-review
(2020-08)There is increasing interest in clinical prediction models in psychiatry, which focus on developing multivariate algorithms to guide personalized diagnostic or management decisions. The main target of these models is the ... -
Predicting treatment response in depression: the role of anterior cingulate cortex
(2018)Background: Identification of biomarkers predicting therapeutic outcome to antidepressant treatment is one of the most important tasks in current research because it may transform the lengthy process of finding the right ... -
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. ... -
Real-world effect of antidepressants for depressive disorder in primary care: protocol of a population-based cohort study
(2020-06)Introduction Clinical guidelines recommend antidepressants as the first line of treatment for adults with moderate-to-severe depression. Randomised trials provide the best evidence on the comparative effectiveness of ... -
Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy: Updated comparisons and meta-analyses of newer versus older trials
(2022-01)Valid assessment of drug efficacy and safety requires an evidence base free of reporting bias. Using trial reports in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug approval packages as a gold standard, we previously found that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Statins in depression: a repurposed medical treatment can provide novel insights in mental health
(2022-08)Depression has a large burden, but the development of new drugs for its treatment has proved difficult. Progresses in neuroscience have highlighted several physiopathological pathways, notably inflammatory and metabolic ... -
Subchronic treatment with St John’s wort produces a positive shift in emotional processing in healthy volunteers
(2018-11-28)The neurocognitive model of antidepressant treatment in depression states that antidepressants work by producing relatively immediate positive shifts in emotional processing, which translate into clinical improvement with ... -
Symptom trajectories in discontinuation trials.
(2017-02)Many patients with clinical depression, particularly those with recurrent illness, are treated with maintenance antidepressants after an acute-phase response. But how effective is this approach? The effectiveness of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Vortioxetine for depression: the evidence for its current use in the UK: COMMENTARY ON… COCHRANE CORNER
(2018-12-17)The pharmacological treatment of depression is often hampered by side-effects and unsatisfactory response to treatment. Vortioxetine is one of the newest antidepressants on the market, purportedly with a different mechanism ...