Posted by psychobot5000 on February 2, 2007, at 13:09:50
In reply to Re: Report: Comparative Effectiveness of Antidepres..., posted by mindevolution on February 2, 2007, at 1:29:35
> key question 2a page 23 of 167: efficacy and effectiveness of sgad for maintaining response or remission? (i.e preventing relapse or reoccurence)
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> what?! they prevent depression from occurring???
It's based on evidence that continuing to take an antidepressant after remission prevents relapse in a statistically significant portion of patients, as compared with placebo. Moderate efficacy in this regard seems to be born up by most of the results I've seen.We indeed don't seem to know what causes depression, but that doesn't mean we don't have tools that can keep many patients from relapsing.
...I saw little of use in this report. No distinctions for using any drug type for any sypmtom-clusters, and few variations in efficacy. Notable is that mirtazapine/remeron seems to have a significantly faster onset of action. Not much else.
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