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Article: Some doctors boost dose after 4 weeks: time to antidepressant response underestimated.(Clinical Rounds)
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- OB GYN News
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- September 1, 2004
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PARIS -- A patient with depression may take as long as 8 weeks to respond to treatment with an antidepressant, and the length of this possible lag is often underestimated by physicians, Dr. Andrew A. Nierenberg said at the 24th congress of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum.
In a survey of about 500 physicians conducted by Dr. Nierenberg and his associates, most said they start to grow impatient when a patient does not respond to an antidepressant after 4 weeks of treatment. Many also noted that they would boost the patient's dosage after 4 weeks without a response, but few data exist to show that this helps, said Dr. Nierenberg, a ...