- October 29, 2009
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More Antidepressant Debates
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Six months ago, I asked What's The Best Antidepressant?, and I discussed a paper by Andrea Cipriani et al. The paper claimed that of the modern antidepressants, escitalopram (Lexapro) and sertraline (Zoloft) offer the best combination of effectiveness and mild side effects, and that sertraline has the advantage of being much cheaper.The Cipriani paper was a meta-analysis of trials comparing one drug against another. With a total of over 25,000 patients, it boasted an impressively large dataset, ........ Read more »
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Gartlehner, G., & Gaynes, B. (2009) Are all antidepressants equal?. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 12(4), 98-100. DOI: 10.1136/ebmh.12.4.98
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