Does Concerta augmentation of antidepressants work?
The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Volume 6, Number 3, March 2008
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/tcprv6n3/
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information
Topics: Antidepressants
S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD
Psychostimulants are commonly added to antidepressants in order to augment their effects, but most of the clinical trials have been either open or small controlled trials. In what may be the largest trial done to
date, these investigators (who received funding from Janssen-Ortho, the maker of Concerta) randomized 145 depressed patients…
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S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health Director, Bipolar Disorder Research Program Emory University School of Medicine
Dr Ghaemi has served on the advisory boards of GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Pfizer, Shire, and Abbott Laboratories, receives research grants from GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, and serves on the speakers’ bureaus of GlaxoSmithKline, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Janssen and Abbott Laboratories.