Researchers led by Dr. David Brent of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studied 334 teens for three months. These teens were suffering from severe clinical depression - some had dropped out of school - and had not responded to a two-month treatment of drug therapy. The researchers divided the teens into groups and noticed improvement in 55 percent of the group that underwent therapy and switched to a new drug.
"These findings should be encouraging for families with a teen who has been struggling with depression for some time," Dr. Brent said. "Even if a first attempt at treatment is unsuccessful, persistence will pay off."This study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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