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- From: mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline)
- Subject: Re: Exercise vs Psychotherapy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.125032.16475@newstand.syr.edu>
- Keywords: exercise psychotherapy
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <2090@hsdndev.UUCP> <1992Nov14.024005.9127@news.Hawaii.Edu> <97646@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 12:50:32 EST
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- In article <97646@netnews.upenn.edu> zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Eric Zorrilla) writes:
- >If we want to talk about average treatment response, cognitive therapy
- >seems to be equally efficacious on those depressions with or without
- >melancholic symptoms. Pharamcotherapy, in contrast, seems to be effective
- >mostly on the melancholic depressions with marginal, if any effectiveness
- >on those depressions that don't have vegetative symptoms. [ ... ]
- > With regards to permanence, I should also mention
- >that CT has lowere relapse and recurrence rates than drug regimens that
- >are not maintained (with the jury still out on maintained drug regimens).
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- Response to pharmacotherapy in depression is very difficult to
- predict. Some older studies did suggest that melancholic or endogenous
- depressives were more likely to respond to tricyclics, but a more
- contemporay view is that there is an imperfect relationship between
- depressive severity generally and drug response - the more severely
- symptomatic, the more likely to benefit from medications - up to a
- point (the very most severely ill do not respond terribly well to any
- available form of treatment). Some relatively mild, chronic or clearly
- "reactive" depressions respond very well to SSRI type antidepressants.
- However, attempts to demonstrate that particular types of depressive
- syndromes (e.g., melancholic, hysteroid dysphoric/atypical/phobic-anxious,
- dysthymic, etc) respond to different drugs (TCAs, SSRIs, MAOIs) have
- led to equivocal results. Cognitive therapy does seem to confer an
- innoculating or protective effect against future episodes of major
- depressive disorder.
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