Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 30
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...