The authors attempt to correlate the response to dexamethasone suppression test (DST) with a clinical response to antidepressant drugs in 68 patients with major depression. Antidepressants that influence noradrenergic or serotonergic transmission with relative different potencies were selected and used in standard doses for 6 weeks. The response was evaluated weekly by raters blind to DST results and to antidepressant medications prescribed. The retrospective analysis failed to correlate DST response with outcome of treatment. Therefore the present results suggest that this laboratory test does not help to identify subgroups of depressed patients responding preferentially to various antidepressant drugs.
IS THE DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST PREDICTIVE OF RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT IN MAJOR DEPRESSION / Steardo, Luca; P., Barone; P., Monteleone; M., Iovino; G., Cardone. - In: ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA. - ISSN 0001-690X. - STAMPA. - 76:2(1987), pp. 129-133. [10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02874.x]
IS THE DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST PREDICTIVE OF RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT IN MAJOR DEPRESSION
STEARDO, LUCA;
1987
Abstract
The authors attempt to correlate the response to dexamethasone suppression test (DST) with a clinical response to antidepressant drugs in 68 patients with major depression. Antidepressants that influence noradrenergic or serotonergic transmission with relative different potencies were selected and used in standard doses for 6 weeks. The response was evaluated weekly by raters blind to DST results and to antidepressant medications prescribed. The retrospective analysis failed to correlate DST response with outcome of treatment. Therefore the present results suggest that this laboratory test does not help to identify subgroups of depressed patients responding preferentially to various antidepressant drugs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
