ArticleShanghai archives of psychiatry2014
When is antidepressant polypharmacy appropriate in the treatment of depression?
Article in Shanghai archives of psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Comparison of the Effectiveness of Different Antidepressants in Preventing Psychiatric Rehospitalization.Cureus · 2024Article
- Agranulocytosis Associated With Psychiatric Polypharmacy: Lessons Learned From a Clinical Case.Cureus · 2024Article
- Association between first-line antidepressant use and risk of dementia in older adults: a retrospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
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- Efficacy, Tolerability, and Safety of Toludesvenlafaxine for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder-A Narrative Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Neuronal life or death linked to depression treatment: the interplay between drugs and their stress-related outcomes relate to single or combined drug therapies.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2019Article
- Combining antidepressants.Shanghai archives of psychiatry · 2014Article
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Abstract
Depression is a serious medical condition that is often only partially improved or completely unchanged after standard treatment with antidepressant medications. Various approaches have been developed to treat this subgroup of individuals with 'treatment-resistant' depression; but many individuals continue to live with chronic depressive symptoms that seriously affect their quality of life and overall functioning. One relatively new strategy is 'antidepressant polypharmacy' - simultaneously administering two or more antidepressant medications. Given the heterogeneity of the etiology of depression, this approach could improve therapeutic outcomes by concurrently activating multiple neurological pathways with different mechanisms of action, but there is also the risk that using multiple antidepressants would increase the prevalence and severity of side effects. Further work is needed to assess the potential benefits and risks of this strategy to managing treatmentresistant depression.
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