Adding therapy to meds may speed depression recovery for some

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters) - For about a third of people with depression, adding cognitive therapy to treatment with antidepressant medication helps them reach remission and recovery quicker, according to a new study. “We know they both work so you assume when you put them together it’s going to work better,” said lead author Steven D. Hollon of the psychology department of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He would have liked to see that additive effect for the whole group of depressed patients, but for about two thirds of patients, adding cognitive therapy didn’t matter, Hollon told Reuters Health. Hollon and his team studied 452 adults with major depressive disorder who were randomly divided into two treatment groups, one taking antidepressants alone and the other getting antidepressants and cognitive therapy.



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