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Ketamine treatment for depression: qualitative study exploring patient views
(2021-01)
Ketamine is a new and promising treatment for depression but comes with challenges to implement because of its potential for abuse.
Aims
We sought the views of patients to inform policy and practical decisions about ...
A dose-effect network meta-analysis model: an application in antidepressants
(2021-04)
Network meta-analysis (NMA) has been used to answer a range of clinical questions about the preferable intervention for a given condition. Although the effectiveness and safety of pharmacological agents depend on the dose ...
Negative bias in interpretation and facial expression recognition in late life depression: A case control study.
(2021-04)
While cognitive bias in younger adults with depression has been extensively researched, there have been relatively few investigations of the presence of cognitive bias in late life depression (LLD). This exploratory study ...
A retrospective examination of care pathways in individuals with treatment-resistant depression
(2021-05)
Individuals with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) experience a high burden of illness. Current guidelines recommend a stepped care approach for treating depression, but the extent to which best-practice care pathways ...
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Depressive Symptoms and Risky Behaviors Among Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2021-05)
Several studies conducted in high-income countries have found an association between depressive symptoms and risky behaviors among adolescents. Evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where 90% of the world’s ...
Psychologic Treatment of Depression Compared With Pharmacotherapy and Combined Treatment in Primary Care: A Network Meta-Analysis
(2021-05)
PURPOSE Most patients with depression are treated by general practitioners, and most of those patients prefer psychotherapy over pharmacotherapy. No network meta-analyses have examined the effects of psychotherapy compared ...
Seeing sadness: Comorbid effects of loneliness and depression on emotional face processing
(2021-05)
Background/objective: Loneliness and depression are highly comorbid, and both are associated with social processing deficits. However, there is a paucity of research aimed at differentiating emotional face-processing ...
Functional Connectivity between Task-Positive Networks and the Left Precuneus as a Biomarker of Response to Lamotrigine in Bipolar Depression: A Pilot Study
(2021-06)
Treatment of bipolar depression poses a significant clinical challenge. Lamotrigine is one of a few efficacious drugs, however, it needs to be titrated very slowly and response can only be assessed after 10–12 weeks. With ...
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 ...
A Computational View on the Nature of Reward and Value in Anhedonia
(2021-08)
Anhedonia—a common feature of depression—encompasses a reduction in the subjective experience and anticipation of rewarding events, and a reduction in the motivation to seek out such events. The presence of anhedonia
often ...