Endless Medicines Don't Work for Depression
A new study comparing rTMS and medications again affirms its superiority
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health-themed newsletter. It covers effective treatments as one of our favorite beats. Recurrent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is one such approach.
Today, we have a new paper from Dalhuisen, et. al., published in AJP in Advance, that evaluates patients with depression who have not been helped by multiple trials of medication. 1
Avid readers will recall my coverage of the ASCERTAIN-TRD trial, in which rTMS was compared to both switching antidepressant medicines or augmentation with aripiprazole after one oral antidepressant didn’t work as a first-line treatment. Short version—it’s better. By a lot: