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  • Hot Topic: Major Depressive Disorder
  • Hot Topic: Telemedicine and Smart Phone Therapy Apps
  • Hot Topic: Postpartum Depression
  • Hot Topic: Pandemic-Related Depression
  • Hot Topic: Anxiety
  • Hot Topic: Perinatal Depression

    • Hot Topic: Major Depressive Disorder

     

    In this video, Michael E. Thase, MD, professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses:

    • The factors that can trigger major depressive disorders;
    • Pharmacological options when depression is not responding to first-line treatments;
    • Pharmacological options for patients who need a supplementary or add-on treatment;
    • The outlook for someone with MDD; and
    • How clinicians can encourage higher rates of therapeutic compliance.