title: Major depressive disorder: mechanism-based prescribing for personalized medicine.
abstract: Individual patients with depression present with unique symptom clusters - before, during, and even after treatment. The prevalence of persistent, unresolved symptoms and their contribution to patient functioning and disease progression emphasize the importance of finding the right treatment choice at the onset and the utility of switching medications based on suboptimal responses. Our primary goal as clinicians is to improve patient function and quality of life. In fact, feelings of well-being and the return to premorbid levels of functioning are frequently rated by patients as being more important than symptom relief. However, functional improvements often lag behind resolution of mood, attributed in large part to persistent and functionally impairing symptoms - namely, fatigue, sleep/wake disturbance, and cognitive dysfunction. Thus, patient outcomes can be optimized by deconstructing each patient's depressive profile to its component symptoms and specifically targeting those domains that differentially limit patient function. This article will provide an evidence-based framework within which clinicians may tailor pharmacotherapy to patient symptomatology for improved treatment outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center New York University Behavioral Health Programs, New York University Pearl Barlow Center for Memory Evaluation and Treatment, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Philip F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Saltiel
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Silvershein
keywords: MDD; individualized pharmacotherapy; patient-specific profile; tailored pharmacotherapy
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