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Another Failed Study of âPersonalizedâ Depression Treatment
Due to lackluster antidepressant study results, researchers test if subgroups of depressed patients show greater improvement.
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An effort to identify subgroups of people diagnosed with depression who will see a substantial benefit from antidepressants has come up empty. The study was published in the top-tier journal
JAMA Psychiatry.
The research team was led by Marta Maslej at the University of Toronto and included prolific antidepressant researchers such as Benoit Mulsant, Toshiaki Furukawa, and Andrea Cipriani. They sum up their results as follows:
âIn conclusion, our results do not support the widely held assumption that individual differences underlie the variability in the association between total depression scores and antidepressant treatment.â