According to the World Health Organization, over 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression -- and treatments can be hit or miss. But two recent studies by Yale researchers have led to a new tool that may better personalize treatments for patients.
Finding the right treatment for chronic depression can be as complicated as the disorder, which often includes multiple symptoms treated with varying degrees of success.
Yale researchers wanted to know two things -- whether antidepressants work well on multiple symptoms of depression, and how effective medication is at keeping depression in remission.
Adam Chekroud, a doctoral student in the Yale Department of Psychology and lead author of the latest study, said they used data to identify three groups -- or clusters -- of symptoms experienced by patients.
[For more of this story, written by Lori Mack, go to http://wnpr.org/post/depressio...rsonalized-treatment]
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