Anxiety Disorders

SSRI/Mirtazapine Combination Beneficial as a PTSD Treatment

Patients who received both sertraline and mirtazapine had better improvements in remission and depressive symptoms than those who took sertraline alone.

Combined treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor plus mirtazapine has shown superior efficacy in some studies of depression, but has not been studied in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study aimed to assess acceptability of combined sertraline plus mirtazapine treatment for PTSD and to estimate its effect size relative to sertraline plus placebo.

Thirty-six adults with PTSD were randomized to 24 weeks of double-blind treatment with sertraline plus mirtazapine or sertraline plus placebo. Outcomes were analyzed with mixed effects models.

The combined treatment group showed a significantly greater remission rate (P = .042) and improvement in depressive symptoms (P = .023) than the sertraline plus placebo group. 

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