Thursday, January 31, 2013

Depression can be treated with antidepressants in adolescents not only

Teens struggle with depression will help the combined treatment, such as using only medication is not always effective, say U.S. scientists. Depression occurs in four out of ten young people. You can, by also helping to psychotherapy drugs, the researchers said. Although not the first successful treatment, the combination therapy should deliver results. In the experiment, 334 patients aged 12 to 18 years participated with severe depression that does not help drug treatment for 2 months. The study was conducted in the period from 2000 to 2008 and was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The results showed that about 55 percent of patients with different antidepressants, psychotherapy by on the road to recovery were. Compared with 41 percent of patients receiving the drug were only replaced without psychotherapy. According to experts, the results represent a step closer to the choice of treatment for adolescents with chronic and severe depression. As previously reported, the results of the researchers at the University of Oregon, the effectiveness of antidepressants exaggerated several times.

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