The Potential Procognitive Effects of Modafinil in Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review.

CONCLUSIONS: Modafinil shows preliminary evidence of alleviating specific cognitive symptoms in MDD patients, especially in the short term. However, more research using placebo-controlled longitudinal designs is needed to assess the benefits of modafinil, as there are very few studies addressing modafinil and cognition in MDD. PMID: 31599501 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31599501?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research