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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Nicol Ferrier, Professor Hamish McAllister-WilliamsORCiD
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© 2021, The Author(s).Criteria for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and partially responsive depression (PRD) as subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) are not unequivocally defined. In the present document we used a Delphi-method-based consensus approach to define TRD and PRD and to serve as operational criteria for future clinical studies, especially if conducted for regulatory purposes. We reviewed the literature and brought together a group of international experts (including clinicians, academics, researchers, employees of pharmaceutical companies, regulatory bodies representatives, and one person with lived experience) to evaluate the state-of-the-art and main controversies regarding the current classification. We then provided recommendations on how to design clinical trials, and on how to guide research in unmet needs and knowledge gaps. This report will feed into one of the main objectives of the EUropean Patient-cEntric clinicAl tRial pLatforms, Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU-PEARL, IMI) MDD project, to design a protocol for platform trials of new medications for TRD/PRD.
Author(s): Sforzini L, Worrell C, Kose M, Anderson IM, Aouizerate B, Arolt V, Bauer M, Baune BT, Blier P, Cleare AJ, Cowen PJ, Dinan TG, Fagiolini A, Ferrier IN, Hegerl U, Krystal AD, Leboyer M, McAllister-Williams RH, McIntyre RS, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Miller AH, Nemeroff CB, Normann C, Nutt D, Pallanti S, Pani L, Penninx BWJH, Schatzberg AF, Shelton RC, Yatham LN, Young AH, Zahn R, Aislaitner G, Butlen-Ducuing F, Fletcher C, Haberkamp M, Laughren T, Mantyla F-L, Schruers K, Thomson A, Arteaga-Henriquez G, Benedetti F, Cash-Gibson L, Chae WR, De Smedt H, Gold SM, Hoogendijk WJG, Mondragon VJ, Maron E, Martynowicz J, Melloni E, Otte C, Perez-Fuentes G, Poletti S, Schmidt ME, van de Ketterij E, Woo K, Flossbach Y, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Savitz AJ, Pariante CM
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Molecular Psychiatry
Year: 2022
Volume: 27
Pages: 1286–1299
Print publication date: 01/03/2022
Online publication date: 15/12/2021
Acceptance date: 26/10/2021
ISSN (print): 1359-4184
ISSN (electronic): 1476-5578
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01381-x
DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01381-x
