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Promising new drug for treatment-resistant depression – esketamine

  • Written by Lee Hoffer, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University
One in 3 people with severe depression do not respond to treatment.TZIDO SUN/Shutterstock.com

Treatment-resistant depression affects 1 in 3 of the estimated 16.2 million adults in the U.S. who have suffered at least one major depressive episode. For them, two or more therapies have failed and the risk of suicide is much greater. It’s a grim...

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