Highlights
- Augmentation is more effective than switching. Adding lithium is effective particularly in suicidal patients. Modafinil and T3 have been shown to be good add-ons in patients with fatigue.
- Psychosocial interventions such as mindfulness CBT and behavioral activation have been shown to improve outcomes and prevent relapse of depression.
- Depression may have an underlying inflammatory component. It has been found in some studies that patients with raised CRP above 3 mg/dL did better with nortriptyline than with SSRIs.
Transcript
Hello everyone and welcome to the Psychopharmacology Institute podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Wegdan Rashad. In this series we will be discussing topics that matter to you in your clinical practice, sharing expert opinions and latest research. When I started psychiatry practice I had the notion that depression was one
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