## Forty to 50% of depressed patients who are initially prescribed antidepressant medications or administered electroconvulsive therapy do not experience a timely remission. This group typifies treatment-refractory depression (TRD), defined as a failure to demonstrate an "adequate" response to an "a
Current thinking on treatment-refractory depression
β Scribed by Robert Berman; Dennis S. Charney
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
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