Symptoms of fatigue and cognitive/executive dysfunction in major depressive disorder before and after antidepressant treatment.
Patients with major depressive disorder commonly experience fatigue and cognitive/executive dysfunction. These problems may be symptoms of the depression and persist despite effective antidepressant treatment, or these problems may emerge as adverse effects of some antidepressant treatments. A number of augmentation strategies can be employed to manage fatigue or cognitive/executive dysfunction, but the efficacy of these augmentation strategies must be researched further.
Fava
Maurizio
M
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. MFava@Partners.org
D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome