Says Dr Erick Turner, a psychiatrist from Oregon Health and Science University, “I think the study could dampen enthusiasm for antidepressant medications a bit, and that may be a good thing. People’s expectations for the drugs won’t be so high, and doctors won’t be surprised if they’re not curing every patient they see with medications.”
But Dr. Turner added, “The findings shouldn’t dampen expectations so much that people refuse to even try medication.”
The drugs evaluated in the present study include Paxil and imipramine. The researchers looked at 6 large drug trials which included 50 percent of individuals with severe depression and the rest with moderate symptoms. The study conducted by Drs Jay C. Fournier and Robert J. DeRubeis from the Univ of Pennsylvania, showed that only patients with severe depression benefited from drug therapy.
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