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This site provides a guide to selecting an antidepressant that works for you. The advice in this site is based on review of more than 10 million treatment with 15 antidepressants. The advice does not include all antidepressants in the market but the 15 most commonly used one. The reported analysis did not have access to patient-reported remission of symptoms. Instead, it relied on patterns of use of antidepressants to guess if the patient was in remission. For example, it assumed that patients who abandon their course of treatment were not in remission.
The analysis divides the data into 16,700 subgroups of patients. Each subgroup is organized from the medical history of the cases in our data. In organizing the subgroups, we paid attention only to the statistically significant, robust and large predictors of remission/clinicians' prescription of antidepressants. Other features were ignored and may be important in selection of the right antidepressant. The sample of data, while large, may not represent everyone and may not be appropriate for you. You should not stop your antidepressants based on our advice. Instead take our recommendation to your clinician and together you can decide what is likely to work best for you. Here are some of the background studies that can provide you with more information about how this project was organized:
For more information about the project write to Farrokh Alemi, PhD at falemi@gmu.edu
Definition of remission