While antidepressants and psychotherapy have helped many women with postpartum depression (PPD), established pharmacologic approaches for MDD do not target the proposed mechanisms of PPD, and studies have shown that a substantial number of patients with PPD do not achieve remission with antidepressants. We interviewed 3 experts on the subject.
The final 6 months of life is presumed to be a high-risk period for depression and anxiety in patients with cancer. However, few studies have examined whether depression and anxiety do occur in the last year of life and to what extent.
Data were sourced from the DIVERS-II study which was launched prior to the pandemic with the goal of investigating the effectiveness of self-help problem-solving therapy for depressive symptoms among patients on hemodialysis.
To what extent does depression influence asthma exacerbations? A population-based study presented at ATS 2022 examined the link between exacerbations and depression.
Researchers have developed a system of quantitative EEG analysis which delivers an EEG phenotype associated with depression or anxiety that is customizable to each patient.
Patients with MDD were recruited from the County Hospital of Hall in Tirol in Austria, local psychotherapists, psychosocial counseling centers, and support groups.
The ENGAGE-2 Mechanistic Pilot trial was a randomized clinical trial conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Stanford University between 2019 and 2020.