After 12 weeks, outcomes favored citalopram over placebo. Mean reduction in HAM-D score was 14.9 vs. 11.6 (P=.005), and mean reduction in Beck Depression Inventory II score was 14.7 vs. 11.1 (P=.005).

In a cohort of women with recurrent depression, 12.5 percent showed symptoms of ADHD, and 3.5 percent met the full diagnostic criteria. Not one of these women had ever been screened.

Dysthymia, defined as chronic (≥2 years) depressive symptoms that are insufficient to meet major depression criteria yet impair function, 14 is associated with recurrent depressive episodes.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Maintenance therapy with the antidepressant Lexapro (also known as escitalopram) significantly reduces the risk for recurrent depression, according to study findings.

The news may be surprising, given the challenges in diagnosing psychiatric conditions, especially when they share common symptoms such as recurrent depression and bipolar disorder.

More information: Jessica M. de Klerk-Sluis et al, Aberrant aversive learning signals in the habenula in remitted patients with recurrent depression, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience ...

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