Trajectories of Acute Antidepressant Efficacy: How Long to Wait for Response? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Long-Term, Placebo-Controlled Acute Treatment Trials.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients unresponsive to antidepressant pharmacotherapy, improvements in psychopathology can be expected with ongoing antidepressant treatment for up to 3 months. After 8 weeks of treatment, improvement with ongoing monotherapy is relatively small. PMID: 29659207 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research