Medscape (2/9, Frellick) reports that the American College of Physicians has released a new clinical guideline on the treatment of depression. The guideline, published online Feb. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, points out that “cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is as effective for treating depression as antidepressants, and given its relative lack of potential harms, should be strongly considered as the first-line treatment.” The guideline is “in line with American Psychiatric Association guidelines on major depressive disorder from 2010, which also showed that CBT and” second-generation antidepressants “are similarly effective, said Laura Fochtmann, MD, MBI, professor of psychiatry, pharmacological sciences, and biomedical informatics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.”
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