The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7387 p160
11 February 2006

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Antidepressant time of onset

Antidepressants can elicit a response within two weeks and even within the first three days of treatment, contrary to the currently accepted timeframe of several weeks. This is the conclusion reached by the author of an editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which examines available data (2006;188:105).