A 5-Year Observational Study of Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression Treated With Vagus Nerve Stimulation or Treatment as Usual: Comparison of Response, Remission, and Suicidality.

CONCLUSIONS: This registry represents the longest and largest naturalistic study of efficacy outcomes in treatment-resistant depression, and it provides additional evidence that adjunctive VNS has enhanced antidepressant effects compared with treatment as usual in this severely ill patient population. PMID: 28359201 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28359201?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - March 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Aaronson ST, Sears P, Ruvuna F, Bunker M, Conway CR, Dougherty DD, Reimherr FW, Schwartz TL, Zajecka JM Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research