Groundbreaking Depression Research Being Tested In Real-world Setting
Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 07:28
in Health & Medicine
Psychiatry researchers have taken what they learned from groundbreaking research on treating depression and are applying it to real-world clinical settings. The study, STAR*D, provided evidence for step-by-step guidelines to address treatment-resistant depression and found that half of depressed patients became symptom-free or had major improvement after the first two treatments with medication.