Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Treatment‐resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions

Roger S. McIntyre, Mohammad Alsuwaidan, Bernhard T. Baune, Michael Berk, Koen Demyttenaere, Joseph F. Goldberg, et al.
World Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2023 586 citations

Treatment-resistant depression means depression that does not get better after usual treatments. Scientists do not all agree on one clear definition, which makes it hard to know exactly how common it is or which treatments work best. Using the definition that regulators often use, about 30% of people with depression…

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