by Jim Dryden, Washington University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For older adults with clinical depression that has not responded to standard treatments, adding the drug aripiprazole (brand name Abilify) to an antidepressant they’re already taking is more effective than switching from one antidepressant to another, according to a new multicenter study led by Washington...
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH Pharmacogenetic testing was associated with nearly a two-fold (89 per cent) increase in remission rates compared to treatment as usual in a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health- (CAMH-)led clinical study just published in the journal Translational Psychiatry. The 52-week double-blind study, comparing pharmacogenetic testing guided treatment to treatment as...
