Trial reportJournal of psychiatric research2015
Side-effects of SSRIs disrupt multimodal treatment for pediatric OCD in a randomized-controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of psychiatric research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Antidepressant Tolerability in Pediatric Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Meta-analysis.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- The Impact of Antidepressant Dose and Class on Treatment Response in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
- Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Pediatric Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Relationship to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment or Placebo.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Trial
- A systematic review of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-induced activation and manic/hypomanic switch in children and adolescents.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2025Review
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- eCBT Versus Standard Individual CBT for Paediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Adverse Effects of Antidepressant Medications and their Management in Children and Adolescents.Pharmacotherapy · 2023Review
- Pharmacogenetically Guided Escitalopram Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: Protocol for a Double-Blind Randomized Trial.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Translocator protein 18 kDa: a potential therapeutic biomarker for post traumatic stress disorder.Metabolic brain disease · 2020Review
- Anxiolytic-like effects of paeoniflorin in an animal model of post traumatic stress disorder.Metabolic brain disease · 2018Article
- Antidepressant-like Effects of p-Coumaric Acid on LPS-induced Depressive and Inflammatory Changes in Rats.Experimental neurobiology · 2018Article
- Antidepressant-Induced Activation in Children and Adolescents: Risk, Recognition and Management.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2018Review
- Curcumin Alters Neural Plasticity and Viability of Intact Hippocampal Circuits and Attenuates Behavioral Despair and COX-2 Expression in Chronically Stressed Rats.Mediators of inflammation · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedGoodman, Wayne K [added]
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveActivation Syndrome (AS) is a side-effect of antidepressants consisting of irritability, mania, self-harm, akathisia, and disinhibition. The current study was conducted to analyze how AS may hinder treatment outcome for multimodal treatment for children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
methodsFifty-six children or adolescents were recruited at two treatment sites in a double-blind randomized-controlled trial where participants received Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and were randomized to slow titration of sertraline, regular titration of sertraline or placebo.
resultsUsing a recently developed measure of AS, results suggested that higher average levels of irritability, akathisia, and disinhibition significantly interfered with treatment response and explained 18% of the variance in obsessive-compulsive symptoms during treatment. Interestingly, only session-to-session increases in irritability resulted in a session-to-session increase in obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The observed results were unchanged with the addition of SSRI dosage as a covariate.
conclusionsResults provide empirical support for the proposed hypothesis that AS may hinder multimodal treatment outcome for pediatric OCD. These findings suggest that dosage changes due to AS do not explain why those with higher AS had worse multimodal outcome. Other possible mechanisms explaining this observed disruption are proposed, including how AS may interfere with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
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