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Phase 2 study finds intranasal esketamine effective in treatment‐resistant depression
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30309
Subject(s) - discontinuation , medicine , depression (economics) , antidepressant , placebo , treatment resistant depression , adverse effect , nasal administration , major depressive disorder , anesthesia , psychiatry , pharmacology , anxiety , alternative medicine , pathology , economics , macroeconomics , amygdala
Patients with treatment‐resistant depression who received intranasal esketamine as adjunctive therapy with an antidepressant experienced greater symptom improvement than patients receiving adjunctive placebo, a multiphase study with 67 participants has found. The antidepressant effect seen in the study was dose‐related, and adverse events led to study discontinuation in only a small number of participants. Study results were published online Dec. 27, 2017, in JAMA Psychiatry .