Sertraline

Clinical outcomes of commonly used antidepressants varied among older adults compared with sertraline, according to real-world study results conducted in Denmark and published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

AUSTIN, Texas — Before receiving the Dr. J Michael Lazarus Distinguished Award, Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, MS, presented ways to improve a patient’s lived experience while using dialysis.

Longer time since trauma was associated with larger symptom reductions among patients with PTSD, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Approximately 20% of those with depression who did not respond to an SSRI remitted, and more than half saw no real benefit by switching to another monoaminergic agent, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

SAN DIEGO — In a video interview, W. Clay Jackson, MD, DipTh, clinical assistant professor of family medicine and psychiatry, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, talked about his presentation on the treatment of major depressive disorder with comorbid disorders.

Sertraline led to decreased anxiety symptoms within 6 weeks, but its effect on depressive symptoms took longer to emerge, according to data published in Lancet Psychiatry.