Clinical Trials of Antidepressants

This brief guide takes current clinical trial protocols totask and replaces them with a contemporary framework for improvingnext-generation antidepressants and their underlying science. Innovative modelsare based on a nuanced, neurologically-informed understanding of drugmechanisms and the component cognitive, mood, and behavioral aspects ofdepression. The book reconceptualizes not only the clinical trial process butthe clinical concept of depression itself as essential to bringingpharmaceutical