Depression

Baseline clinical factors and early improvement in overall and specific depressive symptoms predict response to rTMS in patients with depression.

The FDA has granted Fast Track designation to liafensine for the treatment of patients with treatment-resistant depression.

As a treatment, low-dose lithium can act like a bridge between medications and integrative approaches, supporting well-being with reduced adverse effects.

Reports of suicidality with GLP-1RA antiobesity medication are supported by analysis of WHO data, but no association is found in large population cohort study or analysis of clinical trials.

The context and timing of symptoms is critical for a timely and accurate bipolar diagnosis.

Psychedelics: we first must enlarge our knowledge of how these work, what clinical conditions should be targeted, and how different psychedelics compare to each other.

The FDA instead issued a CRL for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, requesting an additional phase 3 trial to examine safety and efficacy. Other psychedelic compounds are proceeding with trials for psychiatric conditions. Learn more here.

Learn more about the latest research related to 9/11 trauma and other psychiatric comorbidities.

Antidepressants posed "negligible" risk of inducing mania in bipolar depression, in a target trial emulation with a larger cohort than in RCTs that have assessed this effect.

Will this help my sleep and mood? Researchers investigated the effects of noninvasive neurostimulation on sleep quality and depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder in a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Abbott has initiated the TRANSCEND study to evaluate the use of deep brain stimulation to manage treatment-resistant depression.

Phase 2 trials suggest extended-release oral ketamine formulations could be alternative to clinic-administered treatment for resistant depression.

What is new in research on major depressive disorder?

Diagnostic clarity between anhedonia and persistent depressive disorder is paramount in clinical practice to ensure effective and safe treatment for patients.

For older adults, hoarding disorder can have serious consequences. Examine this case study to learn more.

Esmethadone missed primary efficacy measure in phase 3 clinical trial after robust results in phase 2, possibly more to differences in the cohorts than the compound.

Will this procedure help? Researchers investigated early symptom improvement and other clinical predictors of response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression.

New phase 1b results of VLS-01, an oral transmucosal film formulation of DMT, show ‘psychologically meaningful’ improvement for patients with treatment-resistant depression.

SSRI and SNRI antidepressants were deemed the safest classes of antidepressants in the event of excess dosing in an assessment of 14 antidepressants prescribed in the United States on 3 safety indices.

After months of preparation, one psychiatrist starts using KAP in her practice.

A supplemental New Drug Application has been submitted to the FDA seeking approval of esketamine (Spravato) CIII nasal spray as a monotherapy for adults with treatment-resistant depression.

This randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 3 clinical trial showed that a 14-day treatment course of oral zuranolone 50 mg/day in MDD led to significantly greater improvements in depressive symptoms when compared with placebo.

New research found that among 8 first-line antidepressants, bupropion was associated with the least weight gain most consistently.

Here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

While ketamine is a not approved for the treatment of depression or chronic pain, clinicians have shown increased interest in using it for these conditions. An FDA workshop is exploring its potential.